Re: Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread Brian Somers
> I noticed some people talking about the linux emulation and how good/bad it > can be and I just wondered, does anybody here have any experiences with the > vmware for linux software? I have been thinking of buying this, for those > one or two windows programs that I need to use now and then. To

Re: Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread A G F Keahan
James, You can download a fully functional 30-day evaluation version of VMWare and see for yourself (make sure you tell them that your "distribution of Linux" is FreeBSD). There are two ports in the FreeBSD ports collection -- /usr/ports/emulators/vmware1 and vmware2, which make installation a l

Re: Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread Colman Reilly
I was asking this yesterday as well ... /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2 is a pretty new port as far as I can make out. I had to upgrade to 4.0-STABLE to make it work on my machine, but it does work, network, sound and all. Seems stable to me. You also *need* the linuxprocfs port installed and moun

Linux emu question

2000-05-26 Thread James Halstead
I noticed some people talking about the linux emulation and how good/bad it can be and I just wondered, does anybody here have any experiences with the vmware for linux software? I have been thinking of buying this, for those one or two windows programs that I need to use now and then. Just wonde