It sounds like you did the virtual disk install and then installed a fresh
copy if Windows on that virtual disk. I'm using it to access an already
existing OS so I don't have to do what you've done. So far, it sounds as
though when you do as you have the results are far better.
Functionally it works great, however I'm relegate to using only 16 colors
and 640 x 480 and that's with the tools installed. Actually the tools
weren't any help. But then again that's ok cause all I need windows for at
the moment is to access the network, and I have a feeling I won't need it
for that much longer.
Mark
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel
Bodanske
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.
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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