You raised important issues, but there is a technical issue which is
more important.
I think the most important question about VMware should be the
following:
The beta releases had problems with display of Hebrew (in menus,
labels, etc.). When the special SVGA driver of VMware for Win95/98
was used, underscores ("_") were displayed instead of Hebrew letters.
The Hebrew version shared this problem with some other languages (e.g
Arabic, Thai, etc.), and it is even mentioned in the "Most Commonly
Reported Incidents" page of VMware (
http://www.vmware.com/support/commonreports.html ). You could avoid
the problem by using NT rather than Win95/98, or by using 640*480*16
resolution, or by avoiding the special SVGA driver. But these methods
are not relevant for most users (without the special driver, the
overhead exceeds impossible limits).
So the BIG question is: Is this incident (according to Hetz - #679)
resolved with the final version of VMware ????
Last time I asked a similar question (it was about build 152), the
answers were: "Try it yourself". Unfortunately, currently I don't
have any available computer with the minimal requirements; All of
them are FAR from the minimal requirements, and even a theoretical
test is not relevant, due to "100% used" disks.
--
Eli Marmor
