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carrja99
03-26-2003, 11:19 AM
I recently got a chance to try VMWare recently (my friend got it) and I must say I was fairly impressed! It was the windows version, 3.2.0, and Mandrake installed and ran fine with some small inconsistencies (icons didn't show up on the K menu, some animation slow downs), but netherless impressive.
I was curious if anyone here has tried the full version of VMWare for linux? Does it run programs fairly good? I am considering purchasing VMWare for linux so I can quit dual booting all the time (not to mention restarting everytime I install something) and continue to use the programs I need.
I have heard it doesnt play games very well, but that is not a major factor in needing it.
Raoul_Duke
03-26-2003, 11:29 AM
can't say i've tried VmWare, but i did install win4lin last night.
From what i've heard, VMware is quite resource hungry but very, very good.
Win4lin is much cheaper and you can only install win 95/98/me on it. I installed win98se last night and it runs like a native install :)
I'm using it for photoshop & dreamweaver and internet banking (it needs internet explorer!!)
Hope this helps :)
edit: i also discovered that VMware 'shields' it's windows install......so you can't get at any files you make (win4lin doesn't suffer from this)
the linux version works fine.
the only issue i have/had with it is that it starts up some daemons that have to run all the time even when you aren't using it.
mdwatts
03-26-2003, 12:22 PM
If you purchase VMware 3.2 now, you can get a free upgrade to 4.0 when it is released (should be quite soon).
carrja99
03-26-2003, 10:20 PM
Nice. I've moved back to windows recently and I've been dual booting, which is quite a pain. The whole concept of a virtual machine has indeed fascinated me, and a demo I obtained that was for windows worked wonders, I was able to install Debian on it with no problem!
I'd like to get this for Linux because a) I dont want to reboot 25 ti es a day, and b) I need to have a constant connection to the internet so my server can always be up. The good thing about having vmware is I could have a server running, install or update something for winXP and reboot without rebooting my actual PC. :D
That and I need to stay up to date with VB, VB .NET, and Access. :(