On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:04:23 -0500 Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all. > > I have a question for any VMWare Linux users. My greatest concern, is > Windows being installed and run on top of Linux. When Windows is > 'virtually' up and running, does it work as normal? AKA, does it > detect devices and what not, enabling printing, networking, etc? With > Windows running under VMWare, are you able to scan the host operating > system's file system in any way? > > I haven't used VMWare for a very long time. Just wanted to get some > input. > > Thanks much! > > -Jeff
Yup. VMWare is pretty slick. I am running the 4.x series, and VMWare is up to 5.x, I didn't feel like paying to upgrade. I am able to run a full WinXP development environment under Linux with VMWare. That includes SQL Server, Visual Sutdio .Net 2005, IIS, etc. I also run my VPN client under VMWare. The linux version is borked and doesn't want to work. The windows version runs fine and lets connect to work through VMWare. The only thing I recommend is having at least 1 GB memory, maybe you could get by with 768 MB. I have 2 GB right now. With 2 GB I give WinXP a full 512 MB and tell VMWare to not swap to disk, and the performance is pretty impressive. Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
