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

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> 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

Have you installed the latest vmware-tools?  If you dont use their display
driver under windows, it must emulate the VGA hardware, and is horribly
slow. I cant imagine what the linux WM might have to do with it.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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