[ale] to try VMWare

[Dow Hurst]

I was able to sync a Palm Vx thru an external COM port using the
standard Palm HotSync software running in Win95 OSRV2 w/Y2K patches with
no problem.  Had to use the 9600 baud setting though.  Have 192Mb RAM on
a Dell Latitude CPt333 laptop with SuSE 6.4.  I really like having
Office97, ChemX (chemistry modelling software), ChemdrawPro, and so on,
easy to hand in a window while being able to do Unix/Linux stuff at the
same time.  I installed with the latest rpm file from VMware.  I'd like
to get the IR port working under Linux for the Palm one day.  I do not
like the way Windows wants to run up the CDROM drive at every file
access.  That is unnecessary, slow, and noisy!
Dow


joshb at speakeasy.org wrote:
> 
> If you are going to run NT4 or Win2K, I would recommend having 256M RAM on
> your box and giving VMWare 128M.  I use to do something similar at my last
> job.  With less than about 128M, NT4 under VMWare just gets slow.
> 
> As far as apps go, for the most part, games will not run.  If all you are
> running is office productivity apps, you will have no problem running
> those applications.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:27:13AM -0400, Frank Zamenski wrote:
> >
> > I'm going to install VMware 2.02 on RH 6.1, hw is AMD K6/2-450, 128MB,
> > 3.1GB IDE hd, 3c905B nic, SBawe32 ISA. Soliciting advice, experiences,
> > recommendations, caveats, and 'gotchas'.
> >
> > Also, I understand rule is RAM/2 for host and guest, but will an up from 128
> > to 256MB really significantly improve performance? And, how big the swap?
> >
> > Also, I'm divided on whether to use known NT4, or unknown W2K, as guest
> > OS. Opiniions? Lastly, any Win apps that don't work? (Prefer empirical
> > instead
> > of subjective experience, please.  :-)
> >
> > Thanks much.
> > fgz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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