Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:56:53 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: pias@gmx.ch Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for Win emulation ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005300855380.608-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <7082.959669820@www3.gmx.net>
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On Tue, 30 May 2000 pias@gmx.ch wrote: > > > > 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? *hangs head in shame* been upgrading one thing at a time ... > > 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. what special X-window server? I have a GeForce256 video card in that machine, so will this special server hurt that, or ... ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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