[ale] VMware and RH5.2

[cfowler at avana.net]

I wish you could use the directory off of ext2fs on 98 in vmware
but that would require some sort of emulation in vmware.  I've
allways thought the best emulation one could do was to try and
emulate the chip itself and not the os.  

VirtualPC for MacOS is a good example of this.  SoftWindows and
WABI emulate the OS and they never can totally work right.  There
must be a way to run 2 x86 based OS's on the same machine at
the same time.  You need a manager running to manager all hardware
usage of both OS's to keep from problems showing up. 

Could you not run win98 on a x4 400 machine even though win98
on supports one chip.  vmware can run on a SMP system therfore
being invisible to the guest OS and giving 98 alot of cpu power?

Chris
--- Original Message ---
Nomad the Wanderer <nomad at orci.com> Wrote on 
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:15:43 -0600
 ------------------ 
I run it on my home box.  Works great.  I'm running on a P2-300
though.
I tried on my P-233 laptop.  It was slow, but it ran.

I believe you can use an existing IDE hard drive, just not SCSI
(what I have)
if you point it to type "persistant" on /dev/hdXX.

It's been extremely stable for me.  I run my quicken and quickbooks
on it.

One thing you can do is boot in one OS, copy source files to
a secondary
HD, stop the vmware machine, and start another vmware machine
and 
tell it to use the secondary HD from the other machine.  Makes
installing
really nice if you don't have the OS on a CD....

Robert


Thus spake Wandered Inn (esoteric at denali.atlnet.com):

> Anyone else tried running vmware under Linux?  I've fired it
up a couple
> of times, and each time I ended up having to hit the reset
button.  I'm
> not running the prescribed hardware, (pentium 200/128M mem),
but I would
> have expected it to just run a bit slower.  I've given up on
it as I
> don't want to trash my system.
> 
> I've also failed to find the docs that tell you how to run
an existing
> environment.  That is, I'd like to fire up win95 that is already
> installed in my drive via vmware under Linux.  Any pointers
as to where
> this is defined??
> 
> cfowler at avana.net wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.vmware.com/software/vmware-wizard.gz
> > 
> > This fixes all problems with vmware-wizard.  If you do not
have
> > a fast processor it will run very slow.  I have been able
to
> > run FreeBSD 2.2.6 and Win98 under vmware.  My PC is too slow
> > to run Solaris 2.5 and would not boot up OpenBSD.  I have
not
> > tried NetBSD.  They state you can not run SCO or UnixWare.
 Hope
> > this info helps.
> > 
> > It seems that when the guest OS is idle vmware runs around
95%
> > of CPU time on the host OS.  I hope the final product does
not
> > do this.
> > 
> > Please email me your comments on vmware.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > --- Original Message ---
> > "Baron Shatturday" <saturday at deathsdoor.com> Wrote on
> > Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:32:58 -0400
> >  ------------------
> > Chris asks something dear to my heart:
> > 
> > > VMWare Wizard states that fdisk 2.1 is not supported but
this
> > > is the default fdisk that comes with RH5.2.  Does anyone
know
> > > which version is supported and could e-mail me that binary?
> > 
> > This is the same error I get when I try to run VMWare.  I,
too
> > would
> > consider it a great boon if someone could enlighten me on
this
> > issue.  I
> > really wanna run that VM stuff.
> > 
> > da Baron
> 
> --
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
> 
> It should be illegal to yell "Y2K" in a crowded economy.
> 	-- Larry Wall, creator of the programming language Perl

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