[computer-go] Computer Go tournament at US Go Congress

[Michael Williams]

VMWare and MS Virtual PC are programs then emulate a PC and run an entire OS within the application.  Both products are free for non-commercial use.

The performance difference is not as bad as you might expect.  I don't think it would be an issue.

Peter Drake wrote:
> Can you expand on that? I'm not familiar with VMWare.
> 
> I suspect many programmers here would be concerned about the performance 
> hit of working on a virtual machine.
> 
> Peter Drake
> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
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> On Mar 18, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Michael Williams wrote:
> 
>> If they install VMWare, would the virtual machines be as locked down?
>>
>>
>> Peter Drake wrote:
>>> I'm still trying to set up a Computer Go tournament at the US Go 
>>> Congress, August 2-9 here in Portland, Oregon.
>>> We finally heard back from the where we're holding the Congress, and 
>>> their policy on using their computer labs appears to be completely 
>>> unworkable:
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> Also, these computer are pretty locked down, security-wise, meaning
>>>> that anything needing to be installed has to be done through the
>>>> User Support Office, with a minimum of four weeks notice.
>>> Any thoughts on what to do now? I can't think of anything better than 
>>> having people bring their own machines. (Since there will be prize 
>>> money involved, we can't reasonably allow remote connections.)
>>> I'm also trying to get some funding from industry, but I'm not 
>>> holding my breath on that one.
>>> Peter Drake
>>> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
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