Jonathan Ervine wrote: > On Thursday 27 September 2007 19:01:26 Jonathan Arnold wrote: >> David C. Rankin wrote: >>> Mates, >>> I have a P4 >>> duo-core processor w/1Gig of RAM and plenty of harddrive space. >>> Where can I get more info to see if Zen will work or whether I will >>> have to try a closed source vmware-Workstation. The only apps I >>> ever need in XP are quickbooks, and occasionally an old Micrografx >>> Designer. > > You should also consider VMware Server. Yes, it's also closed source, > but is freely available/downloadable. > >> Have you tried Wine for these apps? They don't seem particularly >> demanding and I would assume Wine would work. Much less taxing. > > I also agree that wine should be capable of running these applications. > Of course, Crossover Office from Codeweavers is available to provide a > shiny front end to wine to make using it much easier. > >> Personally, I don't feel that 1gb of RAM is really enough to do >> virtual machines. Either your main machine or your virtual machine >> has to get squeezed too much. > > /nods - 1GB is _just about_ enough to get one VM running, and it feels > sluggish either in the VM, the host, or both :-) > >> BTW, it is "Xen" not "Zen" "-) >> >> There is also a new article on the wiki dealing with virtualization: >> >> http://news.opensuse.org/?p=371 > > Also worth pointing out that Xen requires CPUs with the virtualisation > technology on board to be able to virtualise Windows XP (you could also > use LVM as well for that matter). You can check for this support in > your processors by looking for the flags in /proc/cpuinfo - for AMD > it's svm, for Intel it's vmx > > Regards, > Jon
Hmm. Crud.. i looks like I have 'vme' on both cores: [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1867.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6671.97 clflush size : 64 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.33GHz stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 1867.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 cid xtpr bogomips : 6669.25 clflush size : 64 Does anyone know if vme absolutely won't work? More reading to do... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
