I currently run an AMD K-6/400 with 256mb RAM, I have an 8.2GB HDD as primary and an old 1.2GB as a secondary. I decided to try out vmware just to see how powerful it could be, and also because I did not feel up to figuring out wine. I was very impressed, now you could assume that my being impressed is because I have a lot of RAM and a fairly decent processor. True.. I did not see any degrading of performance using NT (I allocated 96mb of RAM and 1GB of HDD space for NT) I have yet to have a problem... (Knock on very large piece of wood) The network set up flawlessly between the vmware NT and the NT box I have for burning CD's and scanning. (Sorry.. no SCSI CDRW or Scanner devices.. AKK!) If you have to work on a Micro$oft project I would highly suggest checking out vmware.. or if you are a die hard Micro$oft fan.. and just have to have your daily dose of M$ to get your heart going... Then try this out.. The only thing I do not like about vmware is the price. No.. I am not suggesting it should be free. I feel that the initial special offering of $75 should hold as the permenant price.. (IMHO!) So give it a try.. heck it has a 30 day tryout license. I don't think you will be unhappy. John PC CIRCUS Clarksville, TN --- "SIMS, Paul, LCTL" <psims@lombard.co.uk> wrote:
VMWARE creates a Virtual Machine which runs under linux (or NT for masochists) allowing you to use another operating system concurrently. This means you could have your linux system hosting, say, NT4 running MS Office & printing via Samba to your linux printer. When (not if) the M$ o/s keels over you just reboot the virtual machine not the linux host.
You could even run another Linux inside a VM for added Penguin Power.
The VM uses virtualized hardware so can be very slow on low-spec pcs (mine is AMD K6-233 and is just tolerable).
-----Original Message----- From: Umut Ceyhan [SMTP:umut@proxy2.egenet.com.tr] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:22 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] About VMWare...
Could anyone tell me VMWare ? I know what it is but I wonder how it can be useful ?
Thanks lot...
Umut
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