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. To find out, try some windows games. Furthermore you cannot do isdn connections, usb is said to be lousy/slowly, 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, cost is relative. I reused an XP licence for this purpose. I had bought my older laptop (SUSE-only but now DOA) with XP and I'm using that licence. My current laptop came with Vista, which was promply removed. I'm sure I could load Vista under XP as well, but, why?
ok, when you are reusing your license, then it did not cost you anything. But can you say that you save on windows licenses by using Linux? ;-))))
Of course, there's always piratebay if you really need something cheap. Not that I'd ever encourage anyone to do such a thing.
Sure, but this is not a serious option imho, especially not for business purposes. regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org