Thanks all for the feedback Regards, David On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 14:50:26 +0200, Jaakko Tamminen wrote:
Hi
My spouse uses vmware 2.0 because she has a bookkeeping software, that is not available for Linux.
She has found, that the same win-98 is running more realiable under vmware than when installed on its own.
This might sound strange, but that is a fact.
We have tried to install the same win-98 to a fresh HD, and it really does crash more ofter than under vmware.
Actually under vmware then only thing that does not work always, is that win -98 does not see the shared samba-printer from Linux, so that is not a really crash, but a undocumented feature of M$.
When running pure win-98, system might hang randomly, saved data might not reach the HD, and must be entered again etc...
Performance is no issue here. And actually the HD transfers seems to be as fast as without emulator (data backup/restore), but screen handling is not as fast, but does not affect except maybe gaming... but we don't game!
So in our case, vmware actually makes the use of bookkeeping software more secure and reliable.