vmware/linux screams because of the kickass memory management linux has. i tried an early release of vmware for NT, on a k6-2 450 with 256MB of ram and because of NT's memory management the 64M i allocated for VMWare was 99% in swap !! the machine had about 190MB free ram and vmware was taking almost 4 hours to install win98 on. this may of been fixed by now of course.
damn nt.. nate On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: nielse >On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:43:31PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: nielse >> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 02:37:43PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: nielse >> > VMware + W98 will run much slower than native W98. A lot of memory nielse >> > (128 MB+) will help here. I found it useless on a P-150 with 32 MB and nielse >> > only adequate on a K6-2/350 with 64 MB. nielse >> nielse >> Well, gee, they onlt recommend a P2-266 w/96Mb or better and say it would nielse >> run (but not be blazingly fast) on less. Let's at least give the straight nielse >> facts and not your distorted view on the matter. nielse > nielse >Chill! I didn't mean to strike a nerve and I don't think my view is nielse >all that distorted. The original poster asked for experiences with nielse >VMware. This was mine. nielse > nielse >Is it subjective? Of course. nielse > nielse >Do I think VMware is slow? Yes, but I'm fairly certain more memory nielse >than I used would help. Win98 reportedly runs faster on version 1.2, nielse >which is now in beta-test. nielse > nielse >Do I use VMware? Yes, but only for applications for which Linux nielse >equivalents don't exist (I haven't tried wine recently.) Speed wasn't nielse >really a factor in the decision, but I felt it was useful enough that I nielse >purchased a license and got rid of my dual-booting setup. nielse > nielse >IIRC, VMware originally recommended a P-266 w/64 MB. nielse > nielse >-- nielse >Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] nielse >Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen nielse > nielse > nielse > nielse >-- nielse >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null nielse > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:22am up 166 days, 19:32, 2 users, load average: 1.04, 1.07, 1.07
