On Wed, June 27, 2007 4:24 am, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Kai Ponte wrote: [...]
on a more general note, I doubt that it the best way to run windows.
After all it requires much more in regard to hardware resources than a native windows would need.
Actually, I don't think they've come out with a terahertz processor yet. AFAIK, that is the minimum requirement to make windows stable. :P
You still cannot do anything that windows can do within an emulator.
?? What can't I do? I run office 2007 (with the Excel that no longer limits me to 65500 rows), Visual Studio, Visio and my internal applications. All seem to work without a decrease in speed when compared to my P-IV 3.4 GHz machine sitting right next to the laptop.
So the performance is ok, but either you do not need more performance than vmware provides or you will get more performance when you run your windows "natively" on your hardware.
Yes, I imagine so. However, with Windows, there is no performance. It is always slow - at least in any version since Win2K. After all, XP and it's lack of performance is why I decided to dive head first into Linux.
To find out, try some windows games.
They seem to play fine. I loaded Hearts and Freecell. I know that I have my Z-Machine emulator and NESTicle somewhere. Maybe I'll load them up and see how they do.
Furthermore you cannot do isdn connections,
??? People still have ISDN? I thought that was depricated.
usb is said to be lousy/slowly,
No worse than SuSE 9.3 > 10.0. I just tried.
3D Acceleration is not useable and more. Again, vmware is great and you can work with it all day long, but it surely lacks something against running windows natively.
AND, it is quite costly to buy a windows license, and additional windows software licenses for any linux computer that is standing around, just to get in the end, what you had before:
A computer that perfectly runs your main windows application(s). ;-))
Well, no - you end up with a computer running Linux. This is vastly more secure and reliable. You then have an emulator running Windows for those times which are needed. Also, I can (and have) backup my VMWare session for future use. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org