Anybody using VMWare? We're thinking of trying it.

[Mike Pelley]

Edward wrote:

>Yin Ming wrote:
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>>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:53:25 -0700
>>"Michael Scully" <agentscully at flexiblestrategies.com> wrote:
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>>>--- Ben Sheron <ben at whatsmykarma.com> wrote: 
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>>>>Hello Ben
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>>>>VMware is a quality product.  My setup includes dual
>>>>AMD MP 2800s, with
>>>>512 MB RAM.  It works beautifully.  I mainly use it
>>>>to make sure I have
>>>>full compatibility with other Windows boxes (ie,
>>>>opening a Word document
>>>>in VMware after creating it in Open Office). 
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>>Just a question. Is VMware a greedy memory eater? My box is PIII 866
>>with only 256M mem, is it enough to run Linux and WIN2K both smoothly?
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>Not really. I would really only run this with a minimum of 512Mb. I have
>in fact got 1Gb and it runs fine.
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>Regards,
>Ed.
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I agree.  I went from 512 to 1.5 GB and everything works much freer.  
I'm running SuSE 9.1 as the host and testing WinXP Pro to Win Server 
2003 as guests on a P4 2.8 HT.

Cheers,
Mike