From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon May 29 23:57: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from www3.gmx.net (www.gmx.net [194.221.183.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E31D237B54E for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 23:57:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pias@gmx.ch) Received: (qmail 7095 invoked by uid 0); 30 May 2000 06:57:00 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:57:00 +0200 (MEST) To: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for Win emulation ... From: pias@gmx.ch References: Message-ID: <7082.959669820@www3.gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Authenticated-Sender: #0003107152@gmx.net X-Authenticated-IP: [198.240.213.30] X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Morning all ... > > I've got a Dual-Celeron machine here at home, running 5.0-CURRENT, > and 128meg of RAM ... I have two SCSI hard drives in my machine, SCSI-ID > 0 > being Dual-BOOT Win98/FreeBSD ... Only 128MB, for a dual processor? > > VMware is nice, but a dog ... I can go for coffee waiting for the > mouse to return ... and it won't let me use my existing 'physical disk' > cause its not IDE ... I use VMware on my laptop, it runs perfectly. It needs a lot of RAM though. I have 386MB. You'd better upgrade to 256MB at least, then run Win98 in 64MB (or 128 if you have large apps). On my desktop (350Mhz PII, 256MB) it's also fine. Btw did you configure windows to use the vmware tools, and do you have the special X-window server with DGA, so that vmware/windows has direct access to your display in fullscreen mode? If not, vmware is slow to the point of being useless. I'm not aware how vmware performs under FreeBSD / Linuxulator though. I've only used it in Linux until now. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message