On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:07:54 +0000
David
Since you have to install Win 98 into VMware, and presumably Win4Lin, you are still faced with the same problems you had previously with a plain Win install, plus you have the overhead of the emulator. If this is the case it is probably better to stay with just Win.
I would appreciate some feedback
Hi David, I run vmware 2.0.10 and I can confirm almost all of what Jaakko says. More specifically : (1) I too find it more stable than a native Win 98 installation. (2) You can save your running configuration so that restart takes only about 3 seconds. I find that very convenient. (3) I mount the vmware/win drives under linux with samba. Data exchange is very fast and reliable./ (4) I have been able to get it to use my linux printer via Samba (Jaakko, you are welcome to have details of my setup if you want). (5) It does impose an overhead on the system. You tell it how much memory it can appropriate, and I find that it works best with 128MB. It is also quite heavy on the cpu. This box was, until very recently, a PIII 800 / 384MB and I could definitely tell the difference between with and without a running instance vmware. Performance was not, however, seriously degraded. A couple of weeks ago I rebuilt as a dual PIII 1Ghz smp with 768MB, and vmware now has no impact on speed - I was kind of daring even to try having an impact by building this box ;-) (6) There are several very helpful newsgroups on vmware's own servers. Most problems get fixed very quickly. (7) You definintely can't play games. Some other graphics things can be a bit weird - WordPerfect needs to have the right printer installed or else font display is screwed up. (8) Under vmware 2 you can only have virtual hard drives of 2GB. I think that limit can be exceeded under newer versions. In summary, I could not run linux as my main system for the purposes of my work without it. It has never let me down. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com