On Friday June 22 2007 12:50:05 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte
wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls.
In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a
1400x1050
resolution with the application running just fine inside. I have no problems with speed or response.
I'd say this is the best of both worlds - a legacy OS like Windows running inside SUSE.
Alternatively, you could try VirtualBox.
He's happy with what he's got. Why mess with it? VMware is very good, very sound, very mature, very well supported. I doubt that can yet be said of VirtualBox.
Agreed. I spent hours setting up my virtual machine the way I want it. I don't plan to scrap it and start over.
However, it is nice to see that there are free competitors. I plan to buy a new home PC this year for my wife. I'll install SUSE, of course. I plan for her to have a virtual machine. Maybe I'll use VirtualBox for it to run XP/2K apps.
Do like I did and install both on the same hardware. VirtualBox seems to be a lighter weight option in that it runs very well on <1GHz processors and <512MB RAM. VirtualBox doesn't have all the bells and whistles of VMware especially in the network setup. It does seem to me on my hardware to be quicker though; faster to load, faster to shutdown, faster running. Same application load, same updates, same virtual disk size, same memory size usage, etc. I have a free copy of VMware 5.5 so the cost isn't an issue. I am not doing any stress testing other than browser testing of websites, tech support of customers Windows problems, etc. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org