On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve wrote:

> Some one on the list said tehy were running vmware w/ NT on a seperate drive.
> Do you have to install the os after installing vmware or can you just plug the
> drive w/ the os already on it into the box w/ vmware aand point vmware to it?

you can use it with an already-installed "guest" OS.  that's what i did -
i had NT for years before i got VMWare, and i didn't have to re-install
NT.  just be sure and make a second "hardware profile" in NT to accomodate
the devices that VMWare will be providing.

-matt

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> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote:
> > You need lots more memory. IT would work great then.
> > 
> >                     
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Kevin Wood wrote:
> > 
> > > I downloaded VMware last night due to the responses on this list and I
> > > am very impressed with the way it works.  I installed Redhat 6.1 and
> > > Windows98 on it and all went well.  Slower than a dog though, but that
> > > would be due to my laptop, a Toshiba 2065CDS.  It has K6-2 366MHz with
> > > 32MB of ram and theres no cache on the harddrive.  My suggestion would
> > > be to run it on a system with a decent amount of ram, so you don't have
> > > to take coffee breaks between mouse moves :)  I give it a 9 out of ten.
> > > I'm going to try the sound and add the VMware tools tonight and then I
> > > will have a better feel for how it works.
> > > 
> 
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