[newbie] Best of both worlds
Just wanted y'all to have a look-see at the beauty and practicality of running linux - while running WinXP in a VMware window! Machine: Intel Celeron 1.2ghz / 512mb RAM / GeForce 4-MX 64mb RAM Screen res is 1600x1200 - the WinXP screen res is 1280x1024 The VM disk is 6gb, with 256mb RAM virtual for the XP VM. SB-Live! sound, printing directly through /dev/lp0 to a Canon BJC 265SP, using Samba to access the host file system, NAT on the virtual ethernet for outside internet access. The VMware XP is visible and accessible to the other workstations on the internal network here - as a regular workstation with no issues. Actually runs faster in a VM than on real hardware - go figure... And who says you need to dual boot? (I have VM's of Win95, Win98, MS-DOS 6.22 w/ QEMM 7.8 and Desqview/X - AND WFW 3.11, MDK v9, OS/2 Warp3 and currently working on a VM of BeOS 5.0.3 Personal Edition) -- Wed Dec 4 21:40:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Oh sure, this costume may look silly, but it lets me get in and out of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on urban crime. Look, here's my ID, and here's a number you can call, that will put you through to our central base in Atlanta. Go ahead, call -- they'll confirm who I am. Unless, of course, the Astro-Zombies have destroyed it. -- Captain Freedom attachment: xp_inside_kde_thumb.jpgWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best of both worlds
Let me know how the BeOS VM works out. I thought that BeOS was incompatible with VMWare. -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04 Dec 2002 21:49:01 +1100 Subject: [newbie] Best of both worlds Just wanted y'all to have a look-see at the beauty and practicality of running linux - while running WinXP in a VMware window! Machine: Intel Celeron 1.2ghz / 512mb RAM / GeForce 4-MX 64mb RAM Screen res is 1600x1200 - the WinXP screen res is 1280x1024 The VM disk is 6gb, with 256mb RAM virtual for the XP VM. SB-Live! sound, printing directly through /dev/lp0 to a Canon BJC 265SP, using Samba to access the host file system, NAT on the virtual ethernet for outside internet access. The VMware XP is visible and accessible to the other workstations on the internal network here - as a regular workstation with no issues. Actually runs faster in a VM than on real hardware - go figure... And who says you need to dual boot? (I have VM's of Win95, Win98, MS-DOS 6.22 w/ QEMM 7.8 and Desqview/X - AND WFW 3.11, MDK v9, OS/2 Warp3 and currently working on a VM of BeOS 5.0.3 Personal Edition) -- Wed Dec 4 21:40:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn Oh sure, this costume may look silly, but it lets me get in and out of dangerous situations -- I work for a federal task force doing a survey on urban crime. Look, here's my ID, and here's a number you can call, that will put you through to our central base in Atlanta. Go ahead, call -- they'll confirm who I am. Unless, of course, the Astro-Zombies have destroyed it. -- Captain Freedom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Best of both worlds
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:35, Jim Dawson wrote: Let me know how the BeOS VM works out. I thought that BeOS was incompatible with VMWare. The way I'm going about it is this - and so far it's working - NEARLY - I created an extra vmdisk to go with my Win98SE - a secondary of 2gb - formatted with VFAT and set as a primary partition - installed the BeOS v5.0 through Windows onto the C:\ drive, rebooted the VM w/ the BeOS bootdisk and found the BeOS image...now Im needing to delete the partition on the vmdisk 2gb, format it to the 2gb w/ BFS, use the Install option in the Control panel in BeOS to literally copy itself to the new BFS partition, then setup Be to be the Bootmanager for the VM...so Be would be controlling whether I go into Win98SE or BeOS...(grin)...now, I know that already I have issues with video and sound, but I'm trying to work around that bit... -- Thu Dec 5 09:05:01 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn That's no moon... -- Obi-wan Kenobi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
