Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-06 Thread Daniel Bodanske
I downloaded and installed the trial last night after reading about it HERE! I have reset the memory used for the Windows I loaded onto a virtual disk to 96Mb and configured the modem and ports using the configuration menu. (And I tell you my heart was skipping beats when I first had to

RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-06 Thread Mark Weaver
. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Bodanske Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 11:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. I downloaded and installed the trial last night after reading about it HERE! I

Re: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-06 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.) wrote: Read the instructions on vmware.com. They give explicit instructions in the installation guide on how to get the tools installed. They are in a mountable floppy disk image that comes with VMware. Yup, but the off-line docs provided give also very clear

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-06 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
[snipped] Now if someone can just tell me how to get the 3 games for my kids that use D3D to work:) For the current version of VMware, D3D (or more generally all 3D acceleration cards) won't work (cf VMware website). If your games don't use intensive 3D functions, D3D in software

[expert] RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-04 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. Daniel Woods wrote: It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time [deleted] the performance went down the crapper REAL fast. Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ? You can download the toolbox from their site

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-04 Thread Mark Weaver
ok...I'm a little confused here. If the toolbox is already included in this version of VMware how do I use it. The only thing that happens when I click on "Install VM toolbox" is it asks me if I want to read the documentation. I haven't seen how to use it yet. -- Mark

Re: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-04 Thread Mark Weaver
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 8/4/00 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. Daniel Woods wrote: It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time [deleted] the performance went down the crapper REAL fast. Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools

RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-04 Thread Cindy Pearce
:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. Stephen Bosch wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: sorry about that. I assumed that it was understood that I had Linux running and was attempting to get vmware installed and running. I was trying to get

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-04 Thread Mike Rambo
Mark Weaver wrote: ok...I'm a little confused here. If the toolbox is already included in this version of VMware how do I use it. The only thing that happens when I click on "Install VM toolbox" is it asks me if I want to read the documentation. I haven't seen how to use it yet. There

RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-04 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
: [expert]RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it. "Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote: This is the URL for installing the client tools with VMware http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/quickstart_2_rpm_linux/install_t ools .html I found it by navigating from the download link which

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-03 Thread Vic
Try searching on http://linux.box.sk or http://astalavista.box.sk they might have a crack. On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: Well...I got it working, only to find out that I needed a lisence to use it and the lisence costs a wopping $330 US dollars! I just about choked! IT's really cool too. I

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-03 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Well...I got it working, only to find out that I needed a lisence to use it and the lisence costs a wopping $330 US dollars! I just about choked! IT's really cool too. I was right there ready to start everything up...the boss was looking on and I

RE: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-03 Thread Stephen Bosch
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: sorry about that. I assumed that it was understood that I had Linux running and was attempting to get vmware installed and running. I was trying to get it running on my home machine, but today at work I did get it running only to find out that the

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-03 Thread Mark Weaver
Daniel, I haven't installed the Tool box yet. Actually until I got your message I was wondering where I could get it. I wouldn't mind speeding things up a wee bit and stretching the screen some would be welcome also. One of the real nice features about VMware I find totally awesome is the fact

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-03 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Daniel Woods wrote: It's running quite well here at work, although I'm having quite a time [deleted] the performance went down the crapper REAL fast. Did you install the VMWare toolbox tools ? You can download the toolbox from their site. These help to speed up performance and allow

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Kenneth G. Kay
See http://www.vmware.com/support/linux/doc/ On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use it, nor where the documentation is for it. The

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Sheldon Lee Wen
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, Yesterday I saw something in one of the posts about Vmware and decided to go and get it. It's installed and working, but I have No idea how to use it, nor where the documentation is for it. The `man' page is really no help at all. Anyone have any suggestions

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Jim Ockers
I use VMWare at work to run WinNT under Mandrake 7.0 (solely to access my e-mail on Outlook). Have you tried to create a new configuration using the configuration wizard? It will setup a "virtual machine" file, then once that is setup, you can select which machine you wish to run in the lower

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Well...I got it working, only to find out that I needed a lisence to use it and the lisence costs a wopping $330 US dollars! I just about choked! IT's really cool too. I was right there ready to start everything up...the boss was looking on and I could tell he was impressed with me, when much to

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
yup! I got it working on my workstation at work, but when I did I was crushed to find out that I needed a lisence to run it. the friggin lisence costs $330 dollars! I thought I would going to throw up! that's a bit much don't ya think? -- Mark

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Mark Weaver
yes...I did all that today and it runs fine. Well as fine as it can run till I get the stinkin lisence for it. I don't see that happening any time soon though because at $330 a number I don't think the boss is going to go for that. Even though Linux has next to 99.99% uptime. I was sick when I

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Gary
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:38:47PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mark Weaver wrote: Well...I got it working, only to find out that I needed a lisence to use it and the lisence costs a wopping $330 US dollars! I just about choked! IT's really cool too. I was right there ready to start everything

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- You can get a "test" registration number (good for a month) at their website. I've gotten several months worth of these until I finally decided I didn't need to run windows anymore. They also offer an "unsupported" license for 99$, I'm not sure if you can use

Re: [expert] Vmware??? How to use it.

2000-08-02 Thread Vincent Danen
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:14:54PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: sorry about that. I assumed that it was understood that I had Linux running and was attempting to get vmware installed and running. I was trying to get it running on my home machine, but today at work I did get it running only to