VMWare on Linux

zetec452

zetec452

zetec452

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Anyone run vmware on linux? What kind of performance do you see with Windows XP? Did you have any problems?

I installed windows 2000 on a Linux VM and it runs like a rocket. XP however, was a different story couldn't seem to get it installed without a couple of critical errors, just wanted to see if this was the norm.

Cheers,

Jon
 
Using Gentoo I had no problems at all.
Booted from an iso, just because it was quicker.
Didn't get a single error message. CDROM, USB, Audio all work fine. Oh and so does net access :D

Haven't tried win2000 so I can't comment, but it seems snappy enough for doing office stuff. I'm thinking of buying crossover and doing away with the VM altogether now though. Might just make it that little bit easier, and less clicking....

Specs:
Vmware-player (free one ;o) ) with qemu....
Athlon2500,1gb ram, 80gb ide, 5900le, nforce2 board. Kernel 2.6.18 (Gentoo!!!).
 
I may be using a duff CD. Windows 2000 runs sweet, takes about 3 seconds to load up, with internet acess the lot.

I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 with a 2.6.18 kernel
 
Used VMware on a couple of Linuces (Ubuntu Dapper, Edgy, Fedora, RHEL) without any issue. It sounds like your issue is installation-media related but its probably also worth noting that XP is fairly memory hungry and I generally have to allocate at least 256MB (preferably 512MB) for it to run OK under VMware. Also pre-allocating disc space DOES make a big difference as the main bottleneck I experience under VMware is disk IO
 
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