[plug] Hardware and Vmware

[Kim Covil]

> 
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Mark Saxon wrote:
> 
> > Would VM run any better or faster on an SMP system?  Would I still be
> 
> VMWare will only use one CPU. Unless of course, you are emulating
> multiple PCs, say to test network software.
>   You can leave it running - it wont suck CPU when idle. Just turn off the
> screensaver :)
> 
> Mind you, a dual-celeron board & CPUs for <$600 is rather sexy.

My vague plan... (mostly for the fun of it and to see if it would work)
is to run the dual box as a central server (gateway, file server,
etc...) running a few vmware machines with different operating systems
on running VNC servers and using old 386's with vncviewers as
thin-clients... the Dual box would be up all the time... and so I could
pick and choose which operating system to run by connecting the
vncviewer to the different vm's... anyway very frivolous... but it was a
good enough excuse to allow myself to buy myself a nice new machine
*grin*

Also encoding MP3's should be a bit quicker now... :)

Kim

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