VMWare performance is very good on any 2GHz+ machine. It just works.
The only real hook is with networking, unfortunately they best I've been
able to get working is either shared directories or ftp between virtual
machine and host. But internet access has always been a piece of cake, no
problem whatsoever.
This really is a good solution to the Windows crowd who have no desire to
run Linux on a box. I know recently PCB and gSchem have made some strides
to work under cygwin/mingw, but really it's a lot of work to get it
going(PCB has always worked well under cygwin with the right libraries
installed, gschem was always frozen in time with an old mingw compile).
It's braindead simple to use, install VMWare player, drop VMWare image on
the machine. No install issues, no compatibility issues.
From: Kai-Martin Knaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: gEDA user mailing list <geda-user@moria.seul.org>
To: geda-user@seul.org
Subject: gEDA-user: Re: VMPlayer Image
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:00:11 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:44:27 -0600, John Griessen wrote:
> I suppose some people might have 5 or so disk images they use in
> order to avoid integrating it all and getting 5
tools/entertainment_programs
> that way.
Don't know about some people. But to me a vmplayer is a bridge to windows,
that win users
accept.
> Is VMware's emulation now THAT good, that the usual 2GHz+ hardware has
no
> trouble with it?
Not with such a slender application like geda on linux :^)
> and they offer a freebie now? (If you get someone else's image)
I guess, it is a means to prevent competitors from entering the market via
the low price
segment.
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