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.
About your soundcard: as long as your soundcard works in Linux, VMWARE will
support it. It only emulates a SB16 in the guest OS, meaning that to have
sound in the guest OS you have to install the SB16 drivers.
All in all, VMWARE is a very good and clever product. I haven't ran accross
one single app that doesn't run on the guest OS (as long as you don't want
to run apps that rely on low level hardware acces, say you have a CDR on
your host OS, but you won't be able to use that as a CDR in VMWARE, only as
a CD).
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....
Patrick Putteman
Internet Support Manager
Net7 - member of the Advalvas Group
----- Original Message -----
From: David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 10:03 AM
Subject: [newbie] vmware hardware compatibility
>
> I'm considering trying out vmware using linux as host and running nt as a
> guest os. Before I start, however, I have a couple questions for anyone
> who is familiar with this product:
>
> - On their web site they say that vmware will run on any pentium system
> but they recommend a PII266. Is the performance degraded significantly on
> anything slower? (I have a PII233).
> - Second, vmware is supposed to support only sb16 compatible sound cards.
> Will my Yamaha OPL3SA2 card work under vmware?
> - I'd also appreciate any other comments anyone might have about this
> product.
>
> DvB
>
