Eberhard Roloff wrote:

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.

Yes, yes, NO, yes, YES, no. ;-) Or in other words: yes, vmware is not usable for windows games, this was already mentioned. (3D Acc is part of that problem.) ISDN connections I dunno, isdn4linux works and is better then everything I saw under Windows anyhow. With the last sentence you're more right than you probably intended: VMware is there to *work* with it, not to play games. And for 99.999% of the work-related tasks it does not lack anything against running windows natively. The ca. 10% performance hit is neglectable, the variance of desktop speeds in our office is larger. That said, your USB remark actually triggered me to answer. USB in VMware might not be the fastest device in the world, but at least it works much better than in Linux natively. I can sync my Nokia phone via USB in my VMware box -- but I'm not able to do that in Linux. And we don't want to speak at all about USB disks where Linux does not even detect that they are sleeping and need to be started before the next access. It's not that the ability is not there to check the disk's state, sdparm --cmd=ready reports it properly, but Linux kernel doesn't care. (All these issues were addressed by me in the past on this mailing list; no solution to these problems emerged.) In my experience, USB in Linux is lousy. For that reason, I sometimes fire up VMware with Windows just to access a USB device, since it works there. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org