[ale] VMWare 2.0 rocks

[Robert Hoffman]

Hi Jeff,

I may be misunderstanding your question but it sounds like you're wondering whether you can use VMware to run as a Windows server without sucking up a bunch of resources rendering the MS GUI. I believe the answer is no. VMware takes a set amount of resources you specify and allocates it entirely to the guest OS. It is up to the guest OS to run the services, so it must run just as if it was on its own machine.

I also agree that VMware 2.0 rocks. The folks who wrote this are some serious code jockeys. I introduced Linux to my office and have populated most of the servers with it. At first, my boss told me that I would have to run NT as my workstation so that I would have full interoperability with the rest of the office. He dropped the suggestion immediately when he saw NT running in a window on my box. :-)

-Rob Hoffman

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jeff Hubbs <Jhubbs at niit.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:30:20 -0400

> Can you elaborate how VMware would behave for server apps?  That is, can it
>run Win32 apps without an active console?  
>
>- Jeff
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Butera
>To: ale at ale.org
>Sent: 06/26/2000 5:06 PM
>Subject: [ale] VMWare 2.0 rocks
>
>
>I just wanted to say that.
>
>I upgraded VMWare from 1.1 to 2.0 last month. It really hit me just now
>while editing a MS-Word document (stupid forms people require me to fill
>out) how this version of VMWare is so incredibly more responsible to
>user
>input (mice, keyboard) than 1.X.  Well worth the $40 upgrade fee.
>
>I wish I didn't _need_ VMWare, but so much of the world out there just
>assumes that all computer users have Word and Excel.  And  StarOffice
>still has "issues" with a lot of the Word documents that I need to edit.
>
>
>Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
>School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences	
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363 USA
>--> http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/rbutera/
>
>
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