[OT] vmware panic

2002-05-22 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm running VMware 3.0 on Red Hat 7.2 with Windows 2000 Professional at the guest OS. It's been running great for about a year. But yesterday, I started to get these errors when trying to launch VMware: VMware PANIC: (VMX) AIO: Unexpected loss of channel Floppy (thread Floppy) The VMware

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Charles Galpin
ide disks only (currently) :( On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Matt Nelson wrote: > 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 al

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Matt Nelson
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 a

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread T. S. Collins
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? > > TIA > Steve > Steve, VMware does supp

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Jeff Smelser
With vmware, you don't need seperate partitions or drives. It creates a file that will be the new partition. Just make sure you have enough room there to hold the file. The file will be as big as you make the partition in vmware. On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Steve wrote: > Some one

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Steve
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? TIA Steve On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote: > You need

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Jeff Smelser
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. S

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Jim Morris
> 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. I think you will find VMWare pretty much unusable with anything less than 64MB to 128MB RAM. In fact, from the VMWare memory requireme

Re: OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Charles Galpin
you will find it runs mauch faster once you intalls the tools too. Sound will make it slower though. 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

OT-Vmware

2000-01-21 Thread Kevin Wood
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

Re: OT - VMWare

2000-01-20 Thread Jim Morris
Steve wrote: > Sorry for the OT post but I need some feedback on VMware > I am thinking about format c:\ on my windows box and turning it into a > linux server. The problem is that I still have some mission critical apps > that are winblows only and I have a few games I like to play on > winblows