[lug] VMWare Resources

[John Karns]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Sean Reifschneider said:

> 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 don't think memory is all that crucial.

I run an older version of vmware (don't have it in front of me at the
moment, but it's a 2.0x I believe) on a 366MHz K6-II which has 64MB total,
split 32/32.  It's a bit slow for w98, but runs w/o any real problems,
such as lockups.  If I get enough apps open where it starts to swap, then
it's even slower, but still no real problems.  I would suspect the app
more than vmware itself.

Also running a somewhat newer 2.x version on a 700MHz PIII w/ 128M, w98,
mem split 50/50.  Runs very well, with tolerable speed.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net