How good is VMware???

[bkurt]

Just wondering if VMware is really as good as it's website. Proclaims it is. I have slack 7.1 right now and would like to run Win2k in a separate window when I actually need it. Does anyone have this sort of setup going right now??

[dasdfarmer]

bkurt,
I am using Vmware with Mandrake 7.2, Kernel 2.4.0 on a Pentium II 400 with 192 MB of memory. Windows 98 performs well enough to do normal things. I don't think it will be able to play high performance games. The Key to Vmware seems to be a lot of memory. A fast CPU also helps.

[bkurt]

Thats more or less what I was looking to do is just basic things like when I have to have word or excel or something like that. I think I should be ok hardware wise I have a 533 celeron with 256 megs of ram. Anyone else running vmware??

[ndelo]

I actually have win2k open and minimized on SuSE 7.0 as I type this. It runs fine. I have a PIII 600 and 256Mb of RAM. I use VMware just for transcenders and the occassional word document, but when I work in full screen mode, I do sometimes forget SuSe is underneath it. I don't notice any performance hits, but then again, I don't really push the VMs.

[bkurt]

Sounds just like what I need. Did you purchase the retail box of vmware or are you using the 30 trial??

[speck]

I was running it at work a few months ago on a PII233 box with 64MB ram with Linux as the host os and win98 as the virtual os (virtual disk install.) I had it running full screen and asked a couple of coworkers (programmers) to just move around in win98 like normal. It of course feels a little slower, but no one had any idea it was running on VMware.

Speck

[diskman]

Download the 30 day Eval of VMware and try it. I have been using VMware since version 1 I think. I saw it posted on /. about 2 years ago or maybe linuxtoday.com.. Can't remember. Anywho, ran it on a Celery 333/128MB and it ran okay. When version 2.x came out there was a HUGE increase in speed since VMware removed their debugging routines. Now I occasionally run it on my dual BP6 celery 600 box and it flies. Of course it runs on processor #2 so it's fairly snappy. Dont expect to play any big games in it. I stick to Rummy500/Gin-Rummy type card games. Otherwise it performs great for Office/Publisher and ICQ/Mirc.

:p

[africanpekin]

Does anyone have it configure with Me?

[DrDebian]

Originally posted by bkurt:
Just wondering if VMware is really as good as it's website. Proclaims it is. I have slack 7.1 right now and would like to run Win2k in a separate window when I actually need it. Does anyone have this sort of setup going right now??

vmWare really is a knock-out application. I have W2k, NT4 and FreeBSD running in different vmWare windows, works like a charm.

vmWare is one of those programs that really are worth the money they cost. No problems, great support, super bangforthebuck.

[Strike]

Yeah, the key to VMWare is to run it full-screen. Running it windowed results in a big performance hit.

[hndpaul]

I ran VmWare on a PIII 500 system with 192MB RAM and it worked fine! Still got the BSOD sometimes though :confused:

Anyway, I think I'll be needing to buy the boxed product shortly, since its my goal to move all my systems at home to Linux. VmWare would give the ability to still run Windows and Windows applications, but standing on a rock solid operating system :D

Go for it- I think it would work well for you!

Paul, UK