Jonathan Ervine wrote:
On Thursday 27 September 2007 19:01:26 Jonathan Arnold wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Mates, I have a P4 duo-core processor w/1Gig of RAM and plenty of harddrive space. Where can I get more info to see if Zen will work or whether I will have to try a closed source vmware-Workstation. The only apps I ever need in XP are quickbooks, and occasionally an old Micrografx Designer.
You should also consider VMware Server. Yes, it's also closed source, but is freely available/downloadable.
Have you tried Wine for these apps? They don't seem particularly demanding and I would assume Wine would work. Much less taxing.
I also agree that wine should be capable of running these applications. Of course, Crossover Office from Codeweavers is available to provide a shiny front end to wine to make using it much easier.
Personally, I don't feel that 1gb of RAM is really enough to do virtual machines. Either your main machine or your virtual machine has to get squeezed too much.
/nods - 1GB is _just about_ enough to get one VM running, and it feels sluggish either in the VM, the host, or both :-)
BTW, it is "Xen" not "Zen" "-)
There is also a new article on the wiki dealing with virtualization:
Also worth pointing out that Xen requires CPUs with the virtualisation technology on board to be able to virtualise Windows XP (you could also use LVM as well for that matter). You can check for this support in your processors by looking for the flags in /proc/cpuinfo - for AMD it's svm, for Intel it's vmx
Regards, Jon
Hmm. Crud.. i looks like I have 'vme' on both cores: [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1867.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6671.97 clflush size : 64 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1867.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6669.25 clflush size : 64 Does anyone know if vme absolutely won't work? More reading to do... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org