I downloaded and installed the trial last night after reading about it
HERE! I have reset the memory used for the Windows I loaded onto a
virtual disk to 96Mb and configured the modem and ports using the
configuration menu. (And I tell you my heart was skipping beats when I
first had to repartition and format a nonexistent disk -- thinking "I
sure hope this is not real") This program is amazing, but you need to
make sure you install the VMWare tools, and it will install a dummy
driver for you that will give you the same resolutions as you can get in
your host OS. In reality it's great for me, because the only reason I
hold onto windows now is because I have about 120 CDs for my kids
education, and since I had a Creative Savage4, the drivers have always
been buggy and would reboot the system, etc... I don't appear to have
that problem now. I have installed another VM of a slackware Thai
distro and then installed Storm Linux over it. I am very cheap, but the
$90 is looking pretty good. Now if someone can just tell me how to get
the 3 games for my kids that use D3D to work....:)
Mark Weaver wrote:
> Yes...I'm finding that out. As the day progresses and I'm using Vmware
> more and more...getting used to it and all that $330 fee is getting
> smaller and smaller. Especially the $90 fee for the home user! I'm REAL
> pumped about that and fully intend to get that license at the very
> least.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Mark
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