...For the same reasons that ANYone would want to run ANY operating system under
VMware or Virtual PC, perhaps?
In this case I need to use Windows as my primary OS. I like to tinker and
experiment with Linux. I like to do a little dev work with Linux. Sometimes I
need to do some testing/problem recreation for work with Linux. I'm not about
to carry around multiple laptops with me. But it's ridiculous for me to have
to keep rebooting repeatedly into various OSes. It just interrupts my work
flow too dramatically. VMWare allows me to simply run both simultaneously, and
(usually) very seamlessly.
It also gives me a lot of flexibility. I can easily have SuSE 9.0, Redhat 8,
Fedora Core 1, BSD, Solaris, Win98, etc machines available to me to test with.
I can build a "basic" set of HD images that I can share with my co-workers. I
can quickly mount ISOs (like the LiveCD) for booting.
If I'm about to make a major change to the system I can take a Hard Drive
snapshot prior to making the change. If I wish, I can revert back to the
snapshot version of the virtual hard drive to back-out all changes made since
the snapshot. Or I can make the snapshot the jump-off point for a lot of other
virtual instances of the HD. I could go on-and-on.
VMWare and Connectix (now Microsoft) do sell quite a few of these "Virtual PC"
things, people must be using them for SOMEthing...
Ian
Quoting Bruce Marshall
On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:09 am, Ian Schorr wrote:
Has anyone been able to get 9.1 to boot in VMWare at all, or is everyone having this problem?
Why would you want to run it under VMWare? I doubt that many people would even have tried it.
Quoting James Knott
: I get the same problem on my ThinkPad.
Ian Schorr wrote:
Hi,
I'm using VMWare Workstation 4.51 to try to run the new 9.1 LiveCD image.
Unfortunately, it's simply hanging at "Starting PCMCIA". The system
doesn't
freeze - entering characters will display on the console (telling me that VMWare didn't hang, nothing "crashed" per se), but will not continue past
that
point and displays no errors.
I've tried the "safe mode" boot, but it has the same problem.
I also haven't been able to find any parameters (in the VMWare virtual BIOS
or
in the VMWare app itself) that would seem to make any difference.
Has anyone else run into this? Obviously there's no PCMCIA in my virtual
VMWare
PC, is there a boot option to disable starting the pcmcia module?
SuSE 9.0 runs just great for me in VMWare.
-- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/09/04 11:22 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Ok, so what is the speed of dark?"
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