From: Albert C. Lee (alee_at_cavecreations.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 1999 - 11:14:20 EDT
VMware is pretty cool... I ran it briefly on my Thinkpad 600E, and ran
all the betas (haven't bothered to purchase the final version yet) on
my work machine (Dell PII-450).
Does it work? Yes, and it works extremely well. With network
bridging enabled, you can run Internet apps in the Windows
applications while simultaneously running apps in Linux. It is NOT
like Wine at all. You actually do boot Win98, and run native Win98
apps within Win98.
Does it have downsides? Quite a few. First, it's CPU intensive... my
Windowmaker CPU monitor peaks out at near 100% when Win98 boots (I
booted off an existing Win98 partition).
Second, booting for the very first time is a 30 minute process --
Win98 has to redetect all new devices (VMware creates a bunch of
virtual devices which allow it to share ports with Linux -- Win98 sees
them as new devices). You may have to reboot after the first round.
Third, booting in general is painfully slow.
Once it's booted, however, it seems to run acceptably fast -- ie. on a
P2-450, it felt like a P166 in the Win98.
Make sure you have enough memory though.
-Al
> Any Linux guru's out there have VMware running under Linux on a
> thinkpad?
> A friend has redhat 6.0 on his toshiba PII-330 and is running
> Win98 in a virtual VMware session. I didn't get a chance to really
> give it a workout but I was impressed at the ability to wrangle with
> the word and excel docs without having to dump out of my linux
> session.
> Paul Schnettler
>
>
>
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