From: Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I have enough space on my disk for both Linux, Windows (hopefully)
> > and Solaris x86 (proper to a Sun employee, though Linux is used most
>
> Wow! The same combination (Linux+Win+Solaris) that I'm going to
> use under MY laptop (currently, I have separate disks for Win95
> and for Solaris, while Linux is installed on another machine, but
> VMware solves the current limitations).
If you are still open for buying your laptop then drop me a note about
this - I heard Sun have a deal with some laptop maker to support (and
supply) solaris with its hardware, so you'll have a better chance for
Solaris support.
> > 2. Win2000 will support the particular Toshiba hardware (my laptop
> > came with extra toshiba-specific software to handle it).
>
> This will not be a problem at all. You *DON'T* run under Toshiba,
> but under VMware, with a specific NIC, a specific sound card, a
I ALSO want to run under Toshiba (e.g. when I stay in some remote
motel and want to take advantage of the internal 56K winmodem to
connect to sun.net).
> > 3. It will work well with 128Mb RAM.
>
> Again, the point is that ONCE you have enough memory for any of
> these guest OSes, NT will outperform Win98. The problem was if
> you had less memory (let's assume 80MB), which is enough for Win98
> but not for NT.
I understand this, but it sounds like NT supports far less hardware
than win98. (In a way, it makes me think MS fell into their own trap
of proprietary device support).
> > You are right that VMware comes with a closed set of "hardware
> > environment", but I'll have to be able to boot Windows without VMware
> > as well.
>
> Ough... This may make your life much harder. First of all, it
> prevents you from using a virtual disk which is a simple file of
> the host. It means that you will suffer bad performance, and that
> you will not have access to some cool features of the virtual
> disk, like undoable disk.
> But it is even worse: The drivers which are used by the same OS,
> are different under VMware and as a stand-alone system. I am even
> not sure that it is possible.
As others noted already, I use multiple hardware profiles.
Thanks,
--Amos
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