From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 16:50:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netcom.com (netcom9.netcom.com [199.183.9.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC3337B5E2 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stanb@netcom.com) Received: (from stanb@localhost) by netcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA25669 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:49:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Stan Brown Message-Id: <200006172349.QAA25669@netcom.com> Subject: Recomended VMWare setup? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:49:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am going to rebuild my laptop, using FreebSSD 4.x STABLE. I need to be able to run certaain programs for specialized equipment, which only unfortunatley run under m$ OS'es. My plan is to use VMware to acomplish this. Presently I am dual booting this machine wiith FreBSD 3.4 STABLE amd NT. I would like the advice of others who have used VMWare. Should I set this machine up as a dual boot machine? Or should I completly rely on using NT under VMWare? I need Novell networking, and to be able to use NT drivers for a proprietory PCMCIA interface card. How good is the VMWare emualtion at things like this? Should I dual boot the machine, and set up VMWare to allow me to access the NT apps from within FreeBSD, ot jsut make it FreeBSD only, and run VMWare for everything? I would appreciate hearing from people who have used VMWare. -- Stan Brown stanb@netcom.com 404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead... Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message