Daniel,
I haven't installed the Tool box yet. Actually until I got your message I
was wondering where I could get it. I wouldn't mind speeding things up a
wee bit and stretching the screen some would be welcome also.
One of the real nice features about VMware I find totally awesome is the
fact that I can suspend VMware which allows me to in effect put windows to
sleep and the CPU usage drops right back to normal until I need something
in Windows again. Which isn't all that often anymore. Unless I need to
access the network for something. We're running a Novell server and the
boss doesn't have the needed protocols turned on that I would need to
authenticate myself to Novell. Novell wants a wee bit too much for the
Linux client too.
--
Mark
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Daniel Woods wrote:
> > It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time
> > getting the video and ethernet configured correctly. I've got an intel
> > video card, but I can only have the the display adapter set as a
> > Standard PCI card with 16 colors, and a 3Com 10/100 ethernet card that
> > isn't being used. Instead when Vmware started up and was configuring
> > everything Windows, under Vmware installed and configured an AMD PCI
> > ethernet card. Not sure what's up with that stuff yet. As soon as I
> > started to fiddle with trying to get the correct video drivers installed
> > the performance went down the crapper REAL fast.
>
> Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ?
> You can download the toolbox from their site.
> These help to speed up performance and allow better settings.
>
> > Is there a way to allocate more or less memory with VMware? At the
> > moment VMware has 47MB allocated for Windows to run on while I've got
> > 128MB physical in the machine. Linux's memory management being what it
> > is I don't think it's going to mind if more is allocated to run windows
> > under Vmware.
>
> Yes you can in the configuration file for the windows setup.
>
> Thanks... Dan.
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