[ale] more on VMware

[Josh Bonczkowski]

When you install VMWare, it asks a question about installing host only
networking.  Make sure you answered 'no' to that question.  Once that is done,
just select the AMD PCNET Family Ethernet network drivers (at least in Win95,
should be similar for 98), and then configure TCP/IP as you normally would for
windows.  I have done this with both NT 4.0 and Win95 recently.


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