I see their claim, but most of my experience (corporate and not) is that you use VM's to allow you to run _many_ instances of operating systems on a single machine. Unless I misunderstood the article and this isn't also about OS's then I have great example (from work) that would not be a winning situation. We run several instances (~20) of Windows XP on a VM server for developers to use. Would this now require 20 XP licenses plus host OS instead of 1 XP license and the host OS license?
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I see their claim, but most of my experience (corporate and not) is that you use VM's to allow you to run _many_ instances of operating systems on a single machine. Unless I misunderstood the article and this isn't also about OS's then I have great example (from work) that would not be a winning situation. We run several instances (~20) of Windows XP on a VM server for developers to use. Would this now require 20 XP licenses plus host OS instead of 1 XP license and the host OS license?