On 7/13/07, Skippy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://efficientpc.co.uk/videos/vmware/ > > if I was to install windows XP in VMware, what would the processing power > hit be like? Would it be possible to run outlook in it, without it becoming > painful,
It's actually quite usable, providing you install VMware tools with it. As a rough guestimate, expect maybe 60-80% of "native" performance. > The reason I want to use outlook is because it is the only way I am aware of > that allows me to use my Orange M600 WM5 phone with full syncronsation > support. (would VMware do anything silly with the USB) I've not used VMware apart from server type stuff, so I don't know of the USB capabilities. I do hear that the latest VMware workstation's USB has been improved drastically. Can't harm to give it a go :-) > Also is it possible to dual boot to the VMware image? So I can run the same > XP install on its own. I don't think this is possible. IIRC, VMware can access devices/partitions directly, but I can see Windows getting perpetually confused when switching between two different hardware configurations. Maybe someone else will be able to say they've done it successfully. > The laptop I want to do this on is a higrade, 1.4ghz Intel (802.11b only), > with 512mb ram. What Intel chip is it? If it has has "Intel VT" capability, then you may also find success installing KVM - it's open source as well, whatever that means to you :-) Kris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
