[plug] VMWARE

[Andrew Howell]

On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:33:10AM +0800, Peter Caffin wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Anyone looked at this before ?
> > http://www.vmware.com
> > A friend has it running on his redhat 5.2 box with 
> > Win 95 running in an X window.
> 
> *grin* The recommended system requirements make StarOffice 5.0 look lean!
> If you've got the cash for the upgraded PC, go for it.
> 
> Otherwise, I can't help suspecting you'd be better off plonking Win95
> onto a spare ancient 486DX2/Pentium 80 sans monitor and installing the
> Windows VNC server. Install your X VNC viewer on your Linux box and you've
> got much the same result without having to upgrade to 128M RAM and a
> high-order Pentium II.
> 
> That said, if VMWare lets you cut-and-paste somehow between the Windows
> and the Linux portions ... :). 

Last time I used VNC with X and Windows cut and paste worked for me
I was pretty sure.

Andrew

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