[ale] VMware and RH5.2

[Jim Kinney]

Time for my .02$.

I've run vmware on my home machine (i586-133, 96MRAM). I was not able to
use an existing NT installation, but win95/OSR2 installed an ran with no
problems. It's not any more noticably slower than it is on my wife's
486-120 running native. The kick was it talked nicely to the SAMBA on the
Linux side for file and print services using a seperate IP address from
dhcpd. 

The Linux side is a heavily "upgraded" RedHat 5.2 system. I've installed
more versions of Gnome than I can count ;). BTW, the new rpms of Gnome
1.0.8 are quite slick and polished. Broke the vmware at work running NT
though.

Overall, I give Vmware a 9.5 out of 10. I'll buy one (or several for
distribution) when it is released.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

> I guess it's just too much for my P200.  I've not heard of it locking up
> on anyone else, but it did this to me twice.  I mean the whole thing. 
> Keyboard, mouse nothing responded.  Had xdaliclock running and it was
> frozen in time (so to speak).  I had to hit the reset.  I guess I need
> to upgrade to some of that later stuff. :(
> 
> Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                |    Windows is to Unix
> > Senior System Administrator II  |      what 'hooked on phonics'
> >   at Great West Life.           \_       is to Shakespeare
> > 
> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> > 
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > 
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 
> --
> 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
>