[lug] VMWare Resources

[John Karns]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Dhruva B. Reddy said:

> 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.

Indeed, but considering that it's splitting the system resources more or
less 50 / 50, it's to be expected.  It's very usable on my 700 Mhz w/ 128
MB though.


> 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.

Agreed.  I've come close to having that happen as well.  One way to help
avoid that situation would be to turn off the timed auto-boot feature in
lilo.conf.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net