On 27 Apr, Jon Pennington wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 April 1999, Michael Perry wrote:
>
>> Quoting Keith Snape on Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 07:32:21AM -0700:
>> >
>> > Has anyone actually gotten a decent version of VMware
>> > to work? Personally, I tried it out after I got my new
>> > computer, and even on a PII 400 with 128meg DIMM(s)
>> > found that it ran incredibly slow (at least at first).
>> > I then attempted to use an ATAPI cdrom driver, and
>> > got a segmentation fault.... Was I going about this
>> > wrong, or is it just meant not to work properly (like
>> > anything else associated with MicroSlop?)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Keith Snape
>> >
>> > _________________________________________________________
>> I use vmware daily and have not noticed anything really bad with it. IT
>> does have a tendency not to load the vmnet bridged network interface on
>> occasion for me. I use it on a Dell Insipiron Laptop and get decent
>> performance. A few things though. Get the vmware-tools package and try
>> running at full screen. A new beta is coming out soon according to vmware.
>> I have not gotten a segfault using vmware although I did destroy the session
>> and the config file by trying to rollup the window once. It seems to be
>> quite sensitive about its window.
>
> Don't forget: According to the VMWare Web Site, best performance
> is only reallized by using the VMWare version of the X Server,
> or patching and recompiling the source to your X Server. Since
> X is such a vital component, I'd tend to follow thier suggestion.
>
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JP-
Thanks for the advice on the X server. My problem is that with the
Dell Inspiron, the default mach driver does not work. I can either use
a hacked driver or buy the Xi laptop drivers. I would prefer to do the
latter but cannot for several reasons now. I think this may cause some
problems in my circumstance. I just did the latest build on my laptop
and have not seen the vmnet module fail yet. If it does fail, it will
fail when trying to load vmnet-bridge when vmware starts. I have to
force start vmmon also with the earlier build. I really do not need
networking anymore on the 98 box. I did demo the laptop at COMDEX
which was kind of humorous. Someone came up and said they would
install Linux if they could run windows applications directly but that
they realized it could not be done within linux. I told them "despair
not" and showed them vmware. The guy left shaking his head in
disbelief to see linux booting 98. I pointed him toward the SuSE booth
:).
Anyways, thanks for the info!!
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