At 07:51 30/05/01 -1100, Internet Niue wrote:
Howdy,
I'm using VMware, and it's the most amazing thing I've seen since I first saw a mouse demonstrated in the 70's. It totally blew me away.
Windows 98, 2000 and NT all run better on VMware over linux than they do in a real computer. It's fantastic. But it's expensive. Something like $400 I think. I'm still in the trial mode with it, and it's been flawless for
Jyry, I'm pretty sure that NeTraverse does have support for 2.4.X kernels, but if you've built your own kernel, then their installer doesn't recognize 'your' kernel. Also, there has been some discussion of NeTraverse's new relationship with Redhat and how that might impact other distributions. However, downloads directly from kernel.org work, I am told. There is a set of patches to the kernel source code tree that I believe you can add, such that when you do a make xconfig you get an option to enable Win4Lin support. Once this is enabled, their installer will recognize your customized kernel and do the rest of the install. (So I'm told...) I confess I've done none of this, so it may require a little homework, but I know others have done it. Best regards, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jyry Kuukkanen [mailto:jyry@neutech.fi] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:07 PM To: Patriiiiiiiiiick Cc: stclair@niue.nu; SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] Win4Lin vs VMware VMware 2.x is a lot faster that 1.x ever was, but still requires a RAM, in great quantities.... I'd like to test Win4lin 3.0, but as long as they have no support 2.4.x, it's out of the question. Tried installing it yesterday on Suse 7.1 box with no luck: "unknown distro, unknown kernel, cannot install :-(" --Jyry C:-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-( On Wed, 30 May 2001, Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote: three
weeks....I will have to make a decision in a week or so as the 30 days will be up.
On the down side, I tried to install the Vmware Express which is the cheapo version that will only do w95 and 98, and it's about $79 or something. The scripts were puking on install and I tried to get support from VMware and never heard back from them and eventually gave up.
But for sure the full blown version is killer.
If you could point me to Win4Lin, I would like to try it just to compare.
Very easy: www.win4lin.com. It will forward you to www.netraverse.com.
Please keep me informed of the result!
Patrick
Win4Lin too... Errrrr... while I was writing this, I thought about an -- Regards, Richard Saint Clair, Co-Founder Technical Manager Internet Users Society Niue Chairman, Pacific Island Chapter ISOC
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