On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:42:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 05:59:04PM -0700, Dan Brown wrote: > > "James J. Capone" wrote: > > > > > I tried to use VMware with very poor results. My system ran twice as slow, > > > mouse wouldn't work in Linux if it was in full screen mode. Would only > > > accept 16 color format for Video. And more problems arose as I went along. > > > > In addition to your lack of memory (VMware recommends at least 64MB; > > I'm happier at 192), it also sounds like you didn't install the > > vmware-tools in NT/95/98. The difference those made in display speed > > was amazing on my system. > > One of the things I noticed on the VMware FAQ pages was a recommendation to > create a new hardware profile to allow Windows to distinguish between native > booting and VMware-booting. I'd like to be able to use my native Windows > partition under VMware, but with Windows being as unstable as it is, I'd > hate to give it another reason to crap out and die. > > Anyone know how to create a hardware profile? Hmm... bad form to reply to my own message, I know. The documentation for creating hardware profiles is available in the Documentation section of the VMware site. It's almost surprising just how good the documentation for this thing is. I printed out the 15 or so pages of stuff that looked relevant and I haven't hit anything yet it didn't answer. Almost makes me feel like I should save the money and buy the thing when it comes out of beta... :) -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
