[ale] to try VMWare

[joshb at speakeasy.org]

If you are going to run NT4 or Win2K, I would recommend having 256M RAM on
your box and giving VMWare 128M.  I use to do something similar at my last
job.  With less than about 128M, NT4 under VMWare just gets slow.

As far as apps go, for the most part, games will not run.  If all you are
running is office productivity apps, you will have no problem running
those applications.


On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:27:13AM -0400, Frank Zamenski wrote:
> 
> I'm going to install VMware 2.02 on RH 6.1, hw is AMD K6/2-450, 128MB,
> 3.1GB IDE hd, 3c905B nic, SBawe32 ISA. Soliciting advice, experiences,
> recommendations, caveats, and 'gotchas'.
> 
> Also, I understand rule is RAM/2 for host and guest, but will an up from 128
> to 256MB really significantly improve performance? And, how big the swap?
> 
> Also, I'm divided on whether to use known NT4, or unknown W2K, as guest
> OS. Opiniions? Lastly, any Win apps that don't work? (Prefer empirical
> instead
> of subjective experience, please.  :-)
> 
> Thanks much.
> fgz
> 
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