[plug] vmware and accelerated graphics

The Thought Assassin assassin at live.wasp.net.au
Thu Apr 18 13:55:34 WST 2002


On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Russell Steicke wrote:
> My employer is currently in the early stages of deploying a managed
> desktop, using Windows 2000 and some application management software
> from a company called Managesoft.
<but Russell needs to run Linux with accelerated graphics>
> Someone on the managed desktop team has told me that if I run linux as a
> guest under vmware on the win2k host with a geforce2 card, then it will
> do accelerated graphics in the guest.

I can't tell you whether it works or not, but I can't imagine that it
would work as well as running win2k within vmware on your linux box.
Surely the management software works fine under vmware?

-Greg



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