[lug] VMWare Resources

[Sean Reifschneider]

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.

Sean
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