RE: OT: vmware over Linux question

["Mark W. Knecht" <mknecht controlnet com>]

Rick,
   Cool, I'll give them a ring.

   My hope was that vmware might allow a piece of hardware NOT seen by Linux
to be accessed by the guest OS. I only want a single guest OS to talk to it,
so there really shouldn't be any arbitration from the Linux point of view.
Clearly different than a keyboard or a disk.

   And possibly I'll find that it does. I'll report back what ever I find
out.

   What I'm searching for here is a way to take advantage (one day, not
necessarily right now) of Linux's multi-processor capabilities to run Win XP
with Pro Tools on one processor while I run a native Linux app, like Ardour,
on another. Ardour looks quite interesting for audio, but has no/little MIDI
capability.

Thanks very much,
Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:49 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: OT: vmware over Linux question


Mark W. Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    This is a bit off topic. Thanks for your patience! ;-)
>
>    I am not a vmware user, so I wanted to ask a fairly specific question
> before spending too much more time looking at the vmware website where I
> have not been able to find my answer. If there are any vmware users here
who
> might be able to help me with this, please feel free to go offline or
online
> as you see best.
>
>    As I understand vmware, it runs on top of some installed OS. (Linux or
> Windows) I would like that to be Linux in my case. My question is that I
> have an application (DigiDesign's Pro Tools) and a specialized piece of
> hardware (DigiDesign 001) that is recognized in Windows but has no Linux
> drivers. Will a Windows installation in vmware, running on top of Linux,
be
> able to access this card?

I don't know.  My immediate guess is "no", because VmWare uses the
underlying OS to arbitrate access to hardware.  But the folk at VmWare
will be happy to answer that question.  I've found them to be very
helpful.