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> Ted, I am running VMWare on a 450 smp w/ 256meg ram (128 to linux and 128 to
> vmware) and it still seems very slow. DO you think more ram will make a
> difference?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> On 16-May-2000 p-thilts wrote:
> > Jim Baxter wrote:
> >
> >> Good Morning (or whatever it is where you are)
> >>
> >> I am considering installing Linux on some large workstations that now run
> >> that other "OS".
> >> We do most of our work with Linux in character mode but still need some
> >> windows apps.
> >> We could replace Office 200 with the Corel product like it but I will get
> >> much static from some key users.
> >>
> >> I need some opinions on using VMWARE. Things like ease of use, maintenance,
> >> and performance.
> >>
> >> Thank you
> >>
> >> Jim Baxter
> >> MIS
> >> Morrison Supply Company
> >>
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> > Jim:
> >
> > YES
> >
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> > disclosure of my experience may not have got back to you via the list. I
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> > Bye-thanks_TED
> >
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Steve:
I don't think the problem you are having is memory related unless you
are running multiple sessions of VMware at the same time. If you have a
swap partition, or swap file do some system diagnostics to discover
whether any swapping is taking place and how much. You need memory for
the HOST and memory for each VMware client. IF you allocate all your
memory to clients then you could crash your system. If your machine is
fast then check the swapping and make sure you have 60% of the 256 meg
just for the HOST. The highest I've seen for a client so far has been
48Mb of memory. I ran a VMware Client on the Linux HOST and gave the
client 48Mb of memory out of an available 64Mb leaving the HOST with
precious little to work with. Slow was not the word - eventually it
crashed. Some window managers are memory hogs.
It's important to look after the HOST system first and any VMware
clients second.
IF you run multiple clients at the same time on the HOST then (if the
host is busy doing background tasks, etc) you may starve the HOST and
that will affect overall operation of everything including the VMware
clients.
Hope this helps. I just got a note from someone telling me that maybe
the VMware web site might have some information about the problem I had
with the Mandrake client. That would be nice, since I've still not
heard a peep from WMware.
Bye-thanks_TED
PS: There was a reply - from someone running Windows and NT VMware
clients - that answered your note. Maybe this person would do a system
comparison between their system and yours. This person seems very happy
with VMware and did not speak of any real problems of the sort I had.
I wonder if this person is using a pre-installed versions of the
Clients? That, may make a difference because everything supposedly had
been set up correctly.
Bye again...
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