[ale] VMware

[Chris Fowler]

I think I will try to change the nice level.

Has anyone been able to get scanners to work under vmware.  It is parallel
port scanner.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
 From: Rob Butera [mailto:rbutera at ece.gatech.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 10:28 AM
To: Chris Fowler
Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: Re: [ale] VMware


On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I'm running RH 6.1 on the following:
> 
> P 400 mhz
> 128 meg ram.
> 
> Is it possible to boost my vmware performance using nice or any other
> procedure?

Well, root is allowed to nice programs to "negative" priorities.
My experience is that this doesn't necessarily help much, unless
you really do have another "full-time" process continually running
and demanding system respources, besides VMWare.

I run VMWare on a 160Mb PII-366 notebook.  I have found 2 things that
have increased performance:

- increase the amount of "virtual memory" that VMWare will allocate to
Windows.  I noticed some improvement when increasing it from 48Mb
to 64 Mb (with Win98).  

- I also noticed a definite improvement in response time (especially booting
up Win98, which takes a long time in VMWare) when I upgraded to version 1.1.


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