From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 17 17:30:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from rearstage.andysaudio.com (rearstage.andysaudio.com [206.132.13.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA06E157DC for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@andysaudio.com) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by rearstage.andysaudio.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24471; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:29:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:29:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew C. Ohnstad" To: Doug Young Cc: Joe Pepin , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... In-Reply-To: <001b01bf01a4$6bfefac0$827e03cb@apana.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Doug Young wrote: > well, the authors invariably state that it virtually doubles the load on the > machine, which at least > sounds logical since you are effectively running two operating systems at > once. If one doesn't > mind stuff taking forever to happen then its not a problem .... however I > don't know that emulators > are necessarily the solution for constant use ...... occasional > experimenting / development work > is another issue entirely of course Actually, VMWare works very well with little or no degregation... In fact this message comes from Vmware running Linux over NT... I use this setup every day at work. There are a couple custom applications that I need for work that only exist on Windoze. But i spend 90 % of my time in a fullscreen VMWare/Linux session. :) =-=Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message