Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Cory Steers <cory.steers.gmu9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	I have never used Win4Lin.  I think VMWare is great.  However, I was
fortunate enough to by it when you could still get the full blown version
for personal use, for $100.  VMWare is very expensive, so if Win4Lin meets
your needs, it's probably the way to go.

	On a side note ... I am trying to upgrade a Win98 virtual Machine to
a beta2 copy of Windows XP, and so far it's failing miserably.  I was
looking forward to trying XP without having to mess up a machine ...
something that VMWare states as a plus of it's product.  XP complains
immediately about the VMWare video driver, but even using the  windows VGA
driver causes XP to unexpectedly crash the VMWare session.

-----Original Message-----
From: ob_ok@xxxxxxx [mailto:ob_ok@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:22 PM
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [SLE] [VMWARE] Compare win4lin:Vmware 2ndtry


Dee McKinney schrieb:

> After trying to dink with win4lin for awhile, I settled on VMware Express.
> Works excellent. I'd still like to see win4lin keep up with SuSE distro's
> but they are a small company right now.
>
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Oliver Ob wrote:
>
> > > > I have Win4Lin running under 6.4 after some manual jiggery-pokery on
> > > > the kernel patch as Win4Lin only supports SuSE kernels up to 6.3.
> > > > Applying the patch by hand may be daunting to non-programmers, but I
> > > > haven't been one of those for nearly 25 years.

Can someone please give an overview on how these two subsystems compare?
I mean, what does Win4lin offer, that vmware does not (yet)have and vice
versa.

O



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