[NTLUG:Discuss] VMWare

[Chris Cox]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that if you were running Samba and using the devices as
> Linux devices mapped to Winxx through the network neighboorhood that
> this
> would eliminated the contention problems?

Yes...as I mentioned....the safest way to access without contention is
with Samba shares.

> Also I've got my Winxx system
> currently setup to run a time update script on the Linux box everytime
> someone logs in, wouldn't this still work with VMWare?

Apparently, once VMWare is started, it's clock is managed via software.
As I mentioned in my other post, my VMWare machine loses a lot of time
overnight...the clock doesn't keep up.  My guess is that the VMWare
clock gets interuppted too much.

> 
> If you can't run DirectX wouldn't this kill off most of the games that
> Winxx runs?

No...not necessarily.  It pretty much kills of the 3D accelerated games.
I run some directX capable games like Jazz Jackrabbit 2 with no
problems.  Some others which run without problems are: DX-Ball 2, DemonStar,
Forsaken (in SW mode), Riven.

> 
> I have several areas that I've got to support, PeachTree Accounting for
> the business and apps such as Family Tree, Stock Selection Guide,
> Quicken,
> Home Designer, and of course games:)  One machine I share between
> business
> and family to run Winxx tools that I cannot get under Linux so I'd like
> to be able to eliminate a dedicated Winxx machine if possible.  I also
> need
> to be able to test web apps against IE as well as Netscape.  VMWare
> seems
> like it would give me some options including loading OS/2 and testing
> there
> as well.

With the exception of some of the games, and assuming that all of the apps
mentioned are truly Windows apps (not DOS apps), then it should all work
fine.

Of course, you can always have VMWare boot your existing IDE based
install....thus allowing you to boot for real into Windows 98 when needed.
Of course, Windows will plug-and-play you with regards to the monitor....
but it's not too bad.

Regards,
Chris

> 
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> Greg Edwards
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