Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:20:56 -0500 From: "Jeremy Wiebe" <jerwiebe@canada.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... (VM Ware) Message-ID: <NDBBKPHIOLFHLMLKODLLOELNCAAA.jerwiebe@canada.com> In-Reply-To: <37E0F98D.CB17C98B@mail.com>
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Hey everyone, I downloaded the demonstration version of VM Ware a while ago. I installed it on my Linux computer and it worked like a charm. When you run it you can choose to install a new OS or use a current partition that already has an OS installed. The neatest thing about VMWare is that you can change the way it treats changes to the filesystem when the "client" OS is running. You can allow all changes to occur, make all changes reset at each run, or prompt to save changes when shutting down the virtual machine. Note: These filesystems for the client OS's are just regular files on the host OS. The one thing that I found that would be a limitation is the speed. I have a K6 II 350 with 128 MB ram and it ran Win 95 quite slow. I didn't try any other OS's as I didn't have access to any others. Overall, if the speed were increased it would be a very useful product if you still need the unnamed Redmond OS. =) -------------------------------- Jeremy Wiebe icq: 4945359 email: jerwiebe@canada.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Noah Pratt Sent: September 16, 1999 9:07 AM To: gregory kinney Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... gregory kinney wrote: [lots of snippage] > is there any way to make the 1/2 widows 1/2 BSD machine do both at the same > time? Yes! Well, no, not really. http://www.vmware.com/ has a very interesting product that lets you run NT and Linux simultaneously. (This is not just dual-boot, both operating systems actually run concurrently.) They plan on adding support for other OSs. Has anyone had any experience with this? -Noah To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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