[lug] VMWare Resources

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I tried an earlier version (can't remember the number) a few years ago on my
Pentium 120 with 72MB of RAM, with NT 4.0.  I was pleasantly surprised to find
that it was actually usable (albeit barely).

Having just inherited my company's books (on QuickBooks), I just tried
VMWare 3.0 on my Athlon 1133 with 1GB of RAM.  As expected, it was much
quicker.  However, I still noticed some lag. 

Configuration on my dual-boot machine was a snap, although I wish there
was an easy way to get LILO to pick a default system based on whether it
is run natively or within VMWare.  I wasn't watching closely enough, and
the virtual machine starting booting into Linux, and started mounting
one of the (already mounted) Linux partitions before I stopped it.

Dhruva

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:40:52PM -0800, quoth Jeffrey Siegal:
> john starkey wrote:
> 
> >Thus spake Sean Reifschneider (jafo at tummy.com):
> >
> >
> >>On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:56:41AM -0700, john starkey wrote:
> >>
> >>>I tried VMWare on a 333 AMD with 192 megs and it was slow.... really
> >>>slow. Also very hard to work with *at times with very little resources
> >>>available*. But it (the window Windows was in) locked up all the time
> >>>so you had that genuine Windows feeling. :}
> >>>
> >>We've been running VMWare for access to quickbooks for a couple of years
> >>now, and have been pretty happy with it.  I found that giving the GuestOS
> >>64MB worked fine if I had 256MB of RAM.  This is on a Celeron 500...
> >>256MB is the minimum I recommend for VMWare.  These days 256MB is pretty
> >>cheap, though, so no reason not to.
> >>
> >
> >I was so inspired by this thread I installed VMware again last night. Big, 
> >big change from 2.x to 3.0, 333MHz to 900MHz, and 192 megs to 512 megs. 
> >So does VMware have any of the issues of wine? Some apps work and some 
> >don't?? Explorer gave me a few illegal exception errors. Flash and Outlook 
> >run like a gem so far. 
> 
> I used it a while back 1.x and 2.x and I never had any serious 
> compatabilty issues.  As far as the apps are concerned, they're just 
> running on Windows.  (This is very different from WINE which tries to 
> provide a Windows-like environment for apps without Windows -- much harder.)