[Vm-dev] Setting up a VMMaker image

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Thursday 12 November 2009 08:14:54 am David T. Lewis wrote:
> To be honest, I'm not sure it's all that useful, given that I don't
> even bother to use it myself any more. But it was kind of cool that it
> worked ;-)
Please share your frontline experiences. I found OSProcess very useful as a 
facade (shell) to query and access host facilities and services. Its 
inadequate file and network i/o facilities may come in the way of creating stuff 
like scripts but this gap is not formidable. It would be so nice to simply 
probe a system and compile/load a plugin on the fly.

Many apps that run on multiple platforms (compilers, interpreters, desktop 
managers like KDE, typesetters like TeXLive, firefox, openoffice.org, 
audio/video/picture converters) are exposed only through command line services 
and not over a network socket. OSProcess can assist in accessing their 
services easily.

Subbu