[ale] more on VMware

[Jim Kinney]

If you setup samba, you can actively share files between the Linux and
Windows systems. I run IPMasquerading so my VMWare has to share my
physical nic and IP with Linux. It works smoothly. The X patches the
VMWare provides are well worth the installation. They did a really good
job with this program. 

Now put all this on a dual PIII ...  :)

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Lisa Chiang wrote:

> Well I finally decided to install the guest OS (Win98) in the VM which is
> actually a file under Linux in a subdirectory.  I got MS Office and installed
> it and it seems to work fine even though it is only Office 95 where as the OS
> is Win98.  
> 
> The speed was poor until I download VMTools and the new Windows SVGA driver,
> both provided by VMWare.  Now my Windows apps seem to run fairly speedily. For
> full screen mode however, VMWare suggests that you download their modified
> version of XFree86.  I haven't done this yet.
> 
> Now if I can just get the networking working properly, ... Anyway, this
> approach seems to be very promising as now I have access to my two Windows apps
> and all my Lunix stuff without having to reboot.  If this works as well as I
> think it will, I'm going to strip off the old Win98 install and turn that
> partition into a linux partition.   
> 
> 
>  --
> Lisa Chiang
> gt6492d at gatech.campuscwix.net
> Georgia Institute of Technology
>