[plug] vmware on kde (was telnet on Mandrake)

[Bill Kenworthy]

Hi Michael,
    there is 192 meg main memory with 64 allocated within vware to win98 and
vmware itself using 96 meg.  Ran ok, if somewhat slower than my K6-1/200
windows machine when i was running redhat5.2 with windowmaker.  Now its
extreemly slow, as is anything running under kde.  Is it possible there is
something wrong with this setup?  Are there some simple benchmarks that can run
under, say console, in a terminal under kde and windowmaker in order to see
where the problem lies?  Also are you using kde or another window manager?

BillK


Michael Hunt wrote:

> > Thanks to all those who helped - problem solved by installing the telnet
> > server package.  I was fooled into thinking it had been installed ok
> > because all the setup info (inet.conf etc) was present.  Must be a
> > problem with the Mandrake install package list for the combination I
> > used.  I dont think it was for security reasons as the alternative ssh
> > had not been installed, and does not come on the disk (that I can
> > recognise anyway)
> >
> > That kde desktop is very seductive - but ultimately I wont be able to
> > use it in anger because it is too resource hungry, even on a K6-2/400.
> > vmware becomes so slow running win98 that its all but unusable besides
> > other problems so it'll be back to windowmaker soon - sigh
>
> It sounds to me more like a memory issue. I have a Cleron 300A (running 450)
> and 128 M of RAM (PC 100 with the bus running at that speed) and VMware is a
> treat.
>
> What have you got in the box? 64 would just barley pass ....
>
> Michael Hunt