SuSE7.0 and VMWARE/Win4Lin
From: "W.D.McKinney" <deem@wdm.com> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:12:34 -0900 Message-ID: <NEBBKNMAELGHIHMNKLMBCECMCAAA.deem@wdm.com> Subject: SuSE7.0 and VMWARE/Win4Lin Greetings & Happy New Year, I need MS 98 for some business issues, and I wondering what the best app is now for us folks running SuSE 7.0 ? I read that at http://www.linuxworld.com/lw-2000-12/lw-12-penguin_2.html and wonder if any SuSE 7.0 users have gotten Win4Lin to run under SuSE 7.0 ??? How does it really compare as the Win4Lin support doesn't even list 7.0 ? I have enough resources on this box: Asus A7V w/AMD TBIRD 900Mhz and 512megs RAM ATI XPERT 2000 w/32megs RAM etc. Appreciate the feedback :) /Dee
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 21:57:39 -0600 From: Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20001230215739.C954@linux.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE7.0 and VMWARE/Win4Lin On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:12:34PM -0900 or thereabouts, W.D.McKinney wrote:
Greetings & Happy New Year,
I need MS 98 for some business issues, and I wondering what the best app is now for us folks running SuSE 7.0 ? I read that at
How does it really compare as the Win4Lin support doesn't even list 7.0 ?
HI Dee, Glad to see that your up and running with your new chip. I use VMware with SuSE 7 and it works great. I have 256MB ram, so I allocate 128 for VmWare Windows, it works well. With your setup, you could easily allocate 256 MB and it would run just as fast as it does without VMware. Have never had a problem with it.
I have enough resources on this box:
Asus A7V w/AMD TBIRD 900Mhz and 512megs RAM ATI XPERT 2000 w/32megs RAM etc.
Appreciate the feedback :)
-- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
Message-ID: <3A4F5D7B.68819D10@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:23:23 +0100 From: "o.b./RSi/TRSi/SCS*TRC/BB/F4CG" <ob_ok@gmx.net> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE7.0 and VMWARE/Win4Lin
I need MS 98 for some business issues, and I wondering what the best app is now for us folks running SuSE 7.0 ? I read that at
How does it really compare as the Win4Lin support doesn't even list 7.0 ?
HI Dee, Glad to see that your up and running with your new chip. I use VMware with SuSE 7 and it works great. I have 256MB ram, so I allocate 128 for VmWare Windows, it works well. With your setup, you could easily allocate 256 MB and it would run just as fast as it does without VMware. Have never had a problem with it.
D: Gibt es eine Mailing Liste speziell fuer VMWARE / Win4Lin? E: Is there any mailing list available for VMWARE / Win4Lin? Guten Rutsch - happy new year Oliver
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:55:03 -0600 From: Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20001231105503.B2818@linux.local> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE7.0 and VMWARE/Win4Lin On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 05:23:23PM +0100 or thereabouts, o.b./RSi/TRSi/SCS*TRC/BB/F4CG wrote:
D: Gibt es eine Mailing Liste speziell fuer VMWARE / Win4Lin? Nine spreckenze <g>
E: Is there any mailing list available for VMWARE / Win4Lin?
Oliver, Don't know about Win4Lin, but there is a mailing list for VMWare that I remember seeing on their website .. www.vmware.com
Guten Rutsch - happy new year
My very best wishes for a healthy prosperous New Year to you and to all. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.
On 31-Dec-2000 o.b./RSi/TRSi/SCS*TRC/BB/F4CG wrote:
D: Gibt es eine Mailing Liste speziell fuer VMWARE / Win4Lin?
E: Is there any mailing list available for VMWARE / Win4Lin?
Guten Rutsch - happy new year
Win4Lin-users mailing list Win4Lin-users@lists.netraverse.com https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users Regards, Graham Smith ----------------------------------
On 31-Dec-2000 W.D.McKinney wrote:
Greetings & Happy New Year,
I need MS 98 for some business issues, and I wondering what the best app is now for us folks running SuSE 7.0 ? I read that at
http://www.linuxworld.com/lw-2000-12/lw-12-penguin_2.html
and wonder if any SuSE 7.0 users have gotten Win4Lin to run under SuSE 7.0
Netraverse has not patched the SuSE 7.0 Kernel for Win4Lin. This also stands for most of the new distributions not using a generic kernel. I beleive youneed to install a generic kernel to get it to work. Check there mailing list as I know some answers have been posted. Unfortunately I don't have access to my main E-Mail archive at the moment.
How does it really compare as the Win4Lin support doesn't even list 7.0 ?
I think they have been putting all their resourses into releasing Version 2.0. I have been using Win4Lin for quite a while now and have not had a problem but I'm still using SuSE 6.3. I patched my own kernel without any problems as I have modified the SuSE kernel considerably. For MS business applications I have not had a crash and it appears to work as fast as the generic Win 98. I have it working with only 24Meg of Ram allocated and as I said before have not had a problem. Win4Lin works quite well over NFS connected drives. What else can I say but it works well. Don't know much about VMware but believe it to be resourse hungry and is higher in cost to purchase. Check out Win4Lin mailing list Win4Lin-users@lists.netraverse.com https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
I have enough resources on this box:
Asus A7V w/AMD TBIRD 900Mhz and 512megs RAM ATI XPERT 2000 w/32megs RAM etc.
Appreciate the feedback :)
/Dee
Regards, Graham Smith ----------------------------------
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On 31-Dec-2000 W.D.McKinney wrote:
Greetings & Happy New Year,
I need MS 98 for some business issues, and I wondering what the best app is now for us folks running SuSE 7.0 ? I read that at
http://www.linuxworld.com/lw-2000-12/lw-12-penguin_2.html
and wonder if any SuSE 7.0 users have gotten Win4Lin to run under SuSE 7.0
Netraverse has not patched the SuSE 7.0 Kernel for Win4Lin. This also stands for most of the new distributions not using a generic kernel. I beleive youneed to install a generic kernel to get it to work. Check there mailing list as I know some answers have been posted. Unfortunately I don't have access to my main E-Mail archive at the moment.
I have Win4Lin running under 6.4 after some manual jiggery-pokery on the kernel patch as Win4Lin only supports SuSE kernels up to 6.3. Applying the patch by hand may be daunting to non-programmers, but I haven't been one of those for nearly 25 years. Unfortunately, Win4Lin appears to have a conflict with pgp; /usr/bin/charconv. I had to remove PGP prior to installing Win4Lin, and after the Win4Lin setup re-installed PGP which seemed to work -- until I tried to generate some keys. I now have the "choice" of doing without one of the packages. Their tech support has tried to help, including a suggestion to obtain an earlier build of PGP which doesn't appear to conflict.
How does it really compare as the Win4Lin support doesn't even list 7.0 ?
I think they have been putting all their resourses into releasing Version 2.0.
I hope so.
I have been using Win4Lin for quite a while now and have not had a problem but I'm still using SuSE 6.3. I patched my own kernel without any problems as I have modified the SuSE kernel considerably.
For MS business applications I have not had a crash and it appears to work as fast as the generic Win 98. I have it working with only 24Meg of Ram allocated and as I said before have not had a problem. Win4Lin works quite well over NFS connected drives. What else can I say but it works well.
Except no support for serial devices or most other hardware except the parallel port. The serial support stuff is a priority from my perspective, especially if they manage to provide a hook for external processes to watch what's going through the port...
Check out Win4Lin mailing list Win4Lin-users@lists.netraverse.com https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
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