SuSE 9.2, Windows XP, VMware or Dualboot?
I have a Windows XP desktop, but need very often to connect to Linux boxes. I use for that ssh. Often I would even have on my desktop Linux. Unfortunately I cannot get rid of XP at the moment. I need it very often, ... What is the best combination ? SuSE 9.2 as a VMware on XP? This would be my primary choice. I have a partition of 60 MB free. How to install? The desktop is an Athlon 3.2 GHz / 2 G DDRAM bye Ronald
On Friday, April 15, 2005 09:51 pm, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have a Windows XP desktop, but need very often to connect to Linux boxes. I use for that ssh.
Often I would even have on my desktop Linux. Unfortunately I cannot get rid of XP at the moment. I need it very often, ...
What is the best combination ?
SuSE 9.2 as a VMware on XP? This would be my primary choice. I have a partition of 60 MB free. How to install?
The desktop is an Athlon 3.2 GHz / 2 G DDRAM
Hosting virtual machines on VMware Workstation 5 does not require a separate partition. You'll need at least 2-6GB of free disk space on your production partition to host each virtual machine. I also need to use Windows fairly frequently, but I have Linux installed on my hard disk and run Windows in a VMware virtual machine. When you buy VMware Workstation you must choose which will be your "host" operating system, Windows or Linux. IOW, there are really two totally separate versions of VMware, one for Linux hosts and one for Windows hosts. Each product can run any number of "guest" operating systems. Linux on Linux, Windows on Windows, Windows on Linux (my set up), Linux on Windows, whatever you like. You can also have many different virtual machine guests, clones, snapshots and copies virtual machine guests etc. HTH, Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com
On 4/15/05, Ronald Wiplinger
I have a Windows XP desktop, but need very often to connect to Linux boxes. I use for that ssh.
Often I would even have on my desktop Linux. Unfortunately I cannot get rid of XP at the moment. I need it very often, ...
What is the best combination ?
SuSE 9.2 as a VMware on XP? This would be my primary choice. I have a partition of 60 MB free. How to install?
The desktop is an Athlon 3.2 GHz / 2 G DDRAM
bye
Ronald
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Hi, I need from time to time to use XP, so I have prepared the machine for Dualboot, but after that I installed VMWare on my SuSE, and made it to run the already installed XP in it. That way, if I need the full power of the machine for something in XP, I reboot, but otherwise (mot common situation), for some temp work, I just fire-up VMWare and start XP in it. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
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Hi, I need from time to time to use XP, so I have prepared the machine for Dualboot, but after that I installed VMWare on my SuSE, and made it to run the already installed XP in it.
That way, if I need the full power of the machine for something in XP, I reboot, but otherwise (mot common situation), for some temp work, I just fire-up VMWare and start XP in it.
Sunny
I also dual boot XP and SuSE. I have VMware 5.0, but installed XP in it. Would you mind a short explanation about how I could create another VM running the Dual Boot XP in VMware? The virtual XP I am using will not recognize my Plextor DVD reader and LiteOn DVD writer as anything other a standard CD-Rom. It would be nice to have this functionality without rebooting, plus it would write the ISO files to a lot of unused XP disk space. Thanks in advance. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a
On 4/16/05, Ronald Wiplinger
I have a Windows XP desktop, but need very often to connect to Linux boxes. I use for that ssh.
Often I would even have on my desktop Linux. Unfortunately I cannot get rid of XP at the moment. I need it very often, ...
What is the best combination ?
SuSE 9.2 as a VMware on XP? This would be my primary choice. I have a partition of 60 MB free. How to install?
The desktop is an Athlon 3.2 GHz / 2 G DDRAM
bye
Ronald
Depends on your needs. I find QEmu (http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu) very good if you just want to run small linux or windows images, and don't want to fork out for VMWare. I have SuSE 9.2 (less much of the eye-candy) running quite nicely on WinXP for my work computer (not meant to connect anything but a windows machine to the company network) . And at home I have Windows running nicely on SuSE 9.2 with the kernel module loaded. Rik.
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