On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 12:49 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
However, my experience using VMware on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 Gb of RAM was not necessarily what I'd call "snappy."
Just to add another observation... I run VMware 4.5.2 on a 1200MHz Athlon with 1GB of RAM. SuSE 8.2 is the host, and I often run four or five Windows VMs, primarily to prototype Samba configurations. But there are also a few key Windows apps we must run, and we run these in a Windows VM. This machine used to dual-boot Windows 2000 and SuSE 8.2, and the Windows performance in a VM is not noticeably slower than when running natively. My experience has been that VMware performance is really all about RAM. We configure VMware so that it rarely swaps out, and we set the RAM requirements for each virtual machine about 50MB over each machine's normal footprint. YMMV, and apparently it did. Best regards, Mark -- _________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 ************************************************ * Please note that my cell number has changed! * * The new number is (207) 615-1529 * * The old number will be retired by Sept 15th. * ************************************************