[Fwd: Re: [plug] Windows and Linux]

[Michael De Santis]

Bret,

I agree with you on the resource hungry bit. If we were to go ahead with
this we would be looking at buying new machines across the board.
Something that management will balk at once the see the final figure.

Personally I'm  more inclined to have a second older laptop running
linux and the salesperson windows machine connecting to it with through
a mini hub.

But of course - what marketing and sales people want, must be the
correct solution. :)

cheers
Michael
 



Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I trust that your people have sufficiently powerful laptops, to run the
> > stuff? From what I understand, at least 32 MB is required for each of
> > the base OS, and, each of the virtual machines, and, from what I have
> > seen, and, from what I understand, about 128MB of RAM, and, a good, fast
> > CPU, are required, to effectively use WMWare. The web page above,
> > recommends a minimum of 128MB of RAM.
> 
> In thinking about that, I believe that the RAM requirements that I
> stated, are for the OS's, only; add to that, any RAM requirements for
> the applications.
> 
> When Tony demonstrated VMWare, at UCC, about a year ago (I believe it
> was), from memory, his desktop PC (as in faster than a laptop with the
> equivalent configuration, from what I understand), had 192MB of RAM,
> running WinNT 4 on top of VMWare, on top of Linux. I may be wrong in
> that, but, that is what I remember. That did not give extraordinarily
> fast performance, probably about the same as I get, with a Cyrix CPU
> with 32MB RAM, running WinNT 4, I think. In other words, the
> configuration just gave average performance, with the OS/VMWare
> combination. This is no reflection on Tony's computer; my point is that
> it is all very resource-hungry, from what I understand.
> 
> Once again, I may be wrong...
> 
> --
> 
> Bret Busby
> 
> ......................................

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