[ale] VM ?

[Paul Cartwright]

On Monday 26 February 2007 10:37:04 pm Dow_Hurst wrote:
> Have you looked at CodeWeaver's version of Wine? ?It may be tweaked to run
> a later version of Quicken. ?You'd have to check though.

2004, already checked. not good enough
>
> I use VMware alot for providing MSOffice, Adobe products 

nice, I'll check it out once it is installed!

>
> VMware uses kernel level modules so each time the kernel is updated you
> will need rerun as root vmware-config.pl. ?You have to have the kernel
> sources and symbols installed for vmware-config.pl to build the vmware
> modules. ?On Opensuse I do this after a kernel update:

yup, added the kernel-souirces and kernel-syms ( for virtualbox??)
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> gunzip -c /proc/config.gz > ./.config
> make prepare
> vmware-config.pl ?(just take the defaults to get thru it fast)
>
(copy-paste:)

> That is it for maintaining vmware after a kernel update on opensuse. ?You
> use to have to also use a wrapper to get sound to work but now sound seems
> pretty integrated into ALSA and artsd. ?Your Core2Duo machine could run
> 64bit and I believe you can have a 64bit virtual machine too. 
hmmm..... should I be installing 64 bit apps??

>
> RAM is important when running a VM. ?It requires the same amount of RAM
> that a regular PC running XP would. ?And that is not available to the host
> OS at all while the VM is operating. ?I'd recommend 256 Mb min for a
> typical low usage VM. ?For people running multiple VM's you need alot of
> RAM. Hope this helps!

I got this box Vista ready, 2 Gb ram :)

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800