Jigish Gohil wrote:
On 9/27/06, Ronald Wiplinger
wrote: I want to switch all my computers to SuSE, but there are still some programs I need, which are running under Windows.
I would like to find somebody who is using SuSE as host and Windows XP as guest, who can give me some hints.
Set up vmware, installation of guest os is same as you would install on a PC. You can use the same image on any PC running vmplayer(free software). You can set up network between guest and host, and use samba and other network services.
However minimum RAM you would require is 512MB, speed is quite good too.
If you have a PC with intel VT or AMD pacifica, you can use xen and install xp in that.
Thanks for your info I use an AMD on my desktop, and XEN was no way for me. I gave up after several weeks of not being able to run it satisfied. During my frustration I came across QEMU and therefore I asked. VMware is a good choice too. I will try that! Do you know if the same image can be used on different OS???? As mentioned above the main purpose for now is to switch from XP to SuSE. I want to install XP as guest on XP first, evaluate all what I need and than backup the image (QEMU or/and VMware), install SuSE on my desktop and use the backuped image. Is that possible? BTW, the VMplayer is an interesting thought. I have some questions to that. I assume that VMplayer takes an image of the OS I installed (e.g. XP). Is there a VMplayer for Linux? You mention 512M RAM each concurrent VMplayer would need (multiple XPs), this is no problem, since I have 2 GB RAM. How does this work? I have 2 GB, I start VMplayer with XP, so 512M will be reserved for XP. If I add a second VMplayer with another copy of XP, it will take away another 512 M. When I close one, will the 512M go back to the host, or just when I reboot? bye Ronald Wiplinger