Gary wrote:
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 11:28:37PM -0700 or thereabouts, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 08:15:56PM -0700 or thereabouts, Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
Duh! I never thought of "q".
That's a bummer that VMW doesn't support USB. Right now I have a USB printer and mouse.
You should have no problem as VMW will pick up your existing drivers for printer and mouse, or you can add them in with the configuration editor of VMW. What I meant was VMW natively will not support USB by itself, but you can use LPT1 device to put in /dev/lp0 and for the mouse, I just use autodetect in VMW config editor. It has always worked, even with my usb.
Thanks for the tips Gary. Are you using the full Workstation, or VMware Express?
I have the full workstation, but purchased it long ago when it was still cheap.
Lucky guy! I could kick myself for not purchasing it back when it was cheap. Now I'm wondering if the Express is worth the money. They have dropped the price on it down to $49.95 USD, but now I'm wondering if that's not just a tactic to get rid of what they have in stock before they release a new version?
My wife uses it for Word, and SPSS .. although I am slowly transitioning her over to Linux .. now that SPSS is available for linux. I was thinking about putting freeBSD in there too.
One thing I forgot to mention - one of the big differences between WMVare and Win4Lin, VMW will allow you to actually cut and paste between linux and the guest OS, and vice versa, where Win4Lin will not. pretty neat. ... if you have enough memory allocated to VMW, it runs just about native speed with any app. I set up 196 MB for it, as I have 640 on board total. j
-- Best regards, Gary
Today's thought: Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
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