On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 10:56:08AM +0200, Patrick Putteman wrote:
| I've ran VMWARE on a P233 and ran Win95 quite happily. Don't think about
| running WIN98 or NT because that will be just too slow.
Possibly NT running off an existing disk partition will work; at least
in my case that runs a lot faster than running it off a virtual
disk. If you do want to run win98, you probably want to get 98lite
(www.98lite.net) to remove Internet Explorer. It'll speed it up
noticeably.
| [...]
| I recently read in a leading UK PC magazine (PCPLUS) that Vmware was a
| clever but stupid and useless product. I don't agree! Its the Ideal way of
| developing and testing cross-platform applications (or webpages for that
| matter) without the need of several expensive machines. But then PCPLUS only
| talks about Redhat, Suse and Debian as being THE linux distro's....
Yeah... I find too many of these PC magazines biased to one thing or
the other (usually M$). Personally, I've found vmware worth every
penny I paid for it. Being able to run windoze on top of linux without
rebooting, to look at the occasional word document or powerpoint file,
is great. Even better: we have a linux box in the office which is used
for CD burning and some web serving tasks; during the day, it is now
also used by our administrative assistant, who is happily running NT
through VMware in full-screen mode, without interrupting the other
functions of the box...
Make sure you have enough memory though. Since you will be running two
(or perhaps more) OSs at the same time, you'll also need memory for
both of them (this doesn't appear to be the right time to buy memory
though - I have no clue what is happening to memory prices, but it
ain't good...).
-- Alex
