The amount of ram needed is depending on what you need. I upgraded my
system to 128mb at first and it was really snappy but a few days later I got
another 128mb and upgraded to 256mb and I did notice performance drop.
There is a sweet spot between performance and amount needed. Although I am
not speaking of VMWare. Sorry if it's OT however just giving an advice on
amount of ram. They say there is never too much ram but I am using AMD K6-2
400 with P5A motherboard and performance dropped anything after 128mb but on
the plus side I have plenty of room that I can open more apps and edit very
large files so it's a trade off. I plan later for VMWare so I decided to
keep 256mb even if Windows 98 is feeling overwhelmed with amount of ram and
Linux is taking it well even with a tiny performance drop.
CH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kiem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: VMware (Was: WINE)
> Hi Yuri,
>
> > PK> - 100% Windows compatibility, you even get a BIOS!!!
> >
> > what's this ? do you mean DOS or am I missing some Windows specific
> > BIOS? <G>
>
> No, I meant it emulates a complete PC right down to having it's own BIOS
and
> all.
>
> > Does VMWare run NT 4.0 and 5 well? Will AMD K6-3 333 with 256 MB RAM
> > be snappy enough?
>
> Naturally the more memory and CPU the better the performance. Memory
seems
> to be most important I have found. The minimum spec they recommend I
believe
> is a Pentium 266. I used to run it on a Cyrix (about 245MHz) but recently
> upgraded to a Celeron 566 (which is now overclocked to 850MHz) running
256Mb
> of ram.
>
> It's not 100% as fast as running Windows natively but I believe it is
quite
> usuable. At home I run Windows 98 and Windows 2000 inside VMware for
Linux
> and except maybe for mouse performance I am quite happy with it.
>
> Probably you would find Win4Lin is faster but VMware gives a much more
> complete environment.
>
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