On 8/21/05, Sandy McGuffog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and can
confirm it runs at near native speeds.
Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 series
kernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find that
Gentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be
improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel to
run at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has a
clock "helper"
On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
> wrote:
>
> > I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
> > run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do
> > much damage.
>
> That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for
> Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
> as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed
> from the virtual disks.
>
> VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.
>
> > As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
> > licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free.
>
> That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the
> entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, "Wish you were here."
>
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