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