[plug] vmware

[Dennis Plester]

I concur with Colin. Give it heaps of RAM, run full screen and take the time
to install the VmWare tools. They make a huge difference, particularly in
the video department. I've mainly used it for developing and testing web
pages in a windows environment while serving Apache/MySQL/PHP at the same
time in Linux. Beautiful... You can have heaps of fun with the virtual
networking.

It has run everything I've thrown at it. Remember an APC magazine issue some
time ago that had OS/2, BeOS and RedHat 6.2 on the over CDs? I was running
6.1 at the time, and for a laugh, I installed OS/2 and Red Hat 6.2 inside
their own virtual boxes to join the Win 98 SE virtual box already in there.
Worked a treat. Yeah sure, it's not as fast as those operating systems
running natively, but it sure is useful for trying stuff out.

It's also nice seeing Win9x controlled in its own little quarantined,
isolated box, where it can't get out and hurt something...

Dennis.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Colin Muller [SMTP:colin at durbanet.co.za]
	Sent:	Monday, 23 October 2000 12:57
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] vmware

	wvovil at fundi.com.au wrote:
	> I currently have a Toshiba TECRA 8100 on which I have NT 4.0 (SP
6a) and Linux
	> Mandrake 7.1 dual booted. I wish to eventually end up with all
Windows stuff
	> either running under Wine or, where this is not possible running
under NT 4
	> running under vmware on my Linux Host. Has anyone tried to get
vmware going
	> under linux? has anyone had any probs getting NT 4 up on vmware?
Any things to
	> be wary of etc?

	About VMWare: I haven't tried NT under it, but if they claim it
works,
	it will.
	Some things to know:
	- Have lots of RAM (I allocate 80MB to the VM for Win98, it's not
fast
	but it's acceptable)
	- The virtual machine runs faster in full-screen mode (Ctrl-Alt-F8)
	- Install the VMWare Tools for extra speed and better display (comes
	with the software - installation instructions on their site - you do
	this from inside the Win session)
	- Read the tips on the VMWare site before, during and after
	installation. There's useful stuff (including the above).
	- You can reduce the "Ack!" factor by making the Win screensaver in
your
	VM a scrolling marquee which says "I'd rather be Linux".

	I use it for testing how well Web pages work in Windows-based
browsers,
	and it's the most productive solution I've yet found for that.

	Colin