I'll have to check to see if the Linux VMware license works for the Win
version. I have the Linux version and a license installed on one of the
desktop boxes. The notebook is running Win98. If it works out, I can install
VMware on the notebook and bring it along running some Linux flavor. The
notebook is a P2-266 with 96M RAM, pretty much the bottom end of
configurations that will work without looking like a 486SX-33. VMware
requires quite a bit of resources. Besides needing plenty of CPU, it also
carves out RAM for both the host and guest operating systems. Splitting the
96M into 48M each will do some swapping to disk but shouldn't be too bad.
It is impressive to see though in that you can move back and forth between
the guest and host and even copy-n-paste between them. In a networked
environment, it can have it's own network address through a virtual NIC,
separate from the address of the host operating system. Let me know.
Bill Mitchell
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lug-nuts@cheapnet.net [mailto:owner-lug-nuts@cheapnet.net]On
Behalf Of Brian E. Lavender
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 12:48 AM
To: lug-nuts@cheapnet.net
Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] Demo of VMware
It would work out well at a LUGS (or I should say sacLUG) meeting, but I
think we would have limited interest at a general SACPCUG meeting. First
people have to have Linux running to run WMware. I think there is
definite interest in Linux in the general SACPCUG, but we have to get
them familiar with linux first. I am not one to spoon feed people so
they can get Linux running. I would definitely go for demoing it at a
sacpcug users group meeting at the Q&A table, or doing it at a sacLUG
meeting. It sounds like you are the expert, so if you can get a machine,
that would be ideal. My development box is in, well, development right
now. I know Bill Mitchell has been working on VMware, and he has a laptop.
brian
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:57:41PM -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> I thought a demo of VMware would look really cool at a PC Users Group
> meeting. Does anybody want to set that up? [I can't bring my PC running
> vmware, its just too big].
>
> Sean
-- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 25 2000 - 14:29:07 PST