I've used it on a 233mhz K5, and performance was acceptable. I had
128meg of ram. That is most critical. NT really settles down when you
use 64 meg of ram for it, and hardly swaps to disk.
VMWARE emulates a soundblaster. It feeds the commands to the linux
sound card. I've had very poor results with sound, but that isn't what
I'm running NT under linux for anyway. I've never really played with it
to get it to work right.
vmware has a 30 day license they will automatically e-mail to you. It
lets you try before you buy.
I've found some older software (mainly dos based stuff) doesn't like the
virtual machine. Other than that, it works very well.
bug
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, David van Balen wrote:
>
> I'm considering trying out vmware using linux as host and running nt as a
> guest os. Before I start, however, I have a couple questions for anyone
> who is familiar with this product:
>
> - On their web site they say that vmware will run on any pentium system
> but they recommend a PII266. Is the performance degraded significantly on
> anything slower? (I have a PII233).
> - Second, vmware is supposed to support only sb16 compatible sound cards.
> Will my Yamaha OPL3SA2 card work under vmware?
> - I'd also appreciate any other comments anyone might have about this
> product.
>
