Anyone used vmware?

[Spammy]

I was looking at installing vmware for linux on SuSE 6.0 to see how it worked. The guest OSes I'd probably use would be Win98 and mabey Redhat6.0. Does anyone have any experience with using this or tips that might help? Vmware's website is

http://www.vmware.com.

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Thanks<br>

 

[warmongr]

Hello Spammy,<br>
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Just installed VMWare on Red Hate 6.0 with Host WIN98 on a Pentium II 350 (Gateway). I had a couple of lockups when Winders tried to identify my hardware. Had to do a [reset] on VMWare Virtual Machine a couple of times. The install took forever, and I am now having some problems configuring my ATI Rage Pro Vid Card. The virtual machine also will see half of your systems memory and will run slower than he?? if you are not using a powerful machine.<br>
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I haven't gotten into installing some office programs or anything just yet, but I'll post when I do so you can see the results or compare, whatever.<br>
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war...

 

[wargfn]

Hello Spammy, warmongr,<br>
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I am using VMWARE's Xserver and Virtual Machine with Red Hat 5.2 on my A300XT Dell Laptop. The Xserver is the SVGA server. Vmware suggests that you use thier special DGA 1.1 upgrade to XFree's server. As GuestOS I am running both NT 4.0 SP3 and Windows 98. I must admit that NT runs far better than the Windows 98 os in vmware's virtual machine. My laptop has 128mb of RAM and I am able to allocated 128mb to the NT virtual machine. As soon as they fix the DirectX problems, I plan on running Linux and VMware @ home for my games.<br>
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war...

 

[mpeg]

I downloaded vmware but i can't run instal.pl, I'm runing SuSE linux and when I start instal.pl it asks what application to run it with.

what do I do

mpeg

 

[pcunix]

I haven't used vmware yet (been meaning to get to it) but I have used Win4lin, which is different and I think less expensive (both money and computer resources).

I wrote a short review a while back:

http://pcunix.com/Reviews/win4lin.html

Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I have been using VMWARE Workstation 2.x on Linux for sometime and, providing you have got a reasonable amount of physical memory, it is highly recommended as far as I'm concerned.

My only winge is that you can't readily run a proper gui solaris (i.e. cde) in a VM. OS2 is also a no go. All the main M$ stuff plus linuxes, freebsd, etc all work fine.

You problem with the install looks as if you don't have the perl language installed.

Also, if you have current kernels you will find that the pre-compiled modules won't work. This is OK because vmware-config.pl will ask if you want to compile them but, fairly obviously, you need the development environment installed - i.e. gcc compilers , etc.

Regards