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VMware - Multiple OS Simultaneuos Booting - Help Me Pls...

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Anatta

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I have heard about this great utility that claims to have
so many advantages having simultaneous multiple
boot on one machine.If this would work as they
claim to be ,I plan to buy this utility.
Any one ever used this,Pls give me your insights.
Thank you.
 
it's pretty sweet. you can run windows under a virtual machine on linux. just don't expect to play any fsp games with any decent frame-rates.
 
cant you run linux inside windows with vmware? that way you can game cuz windows would be the os running vmware right?
 
you can run linux inside win2000 and NT. Also the last time I checked, they had 1 month trial version.
 
does anyone know how well linux runs under nt and 2000? i have a linux box already but im just curious.
 
I have VMWare 2.03. I have tested installing RedHat 7.0 on W2K. Everything works decently. The benefit is that it will allow you have 2 operating systems running at the same time, to include networking.

It is very much like the virtual PC for Macs or SoftWindows95 for Solaris (Unix).

It alleviates the need to dual boot.

Is it better than running native? No, there is a big performance hit unless you have the hardware (read 256+MB of ram) for it. But it does work. And the Windows version only works for NT or W2K.
 
i think its only available for nt or linux, not win98
dont expect the child os to be albe to have access to all your hardware either, and yes very slow
im sure its good for developers who write code for various os's but other than that i dont see much advantage to anything it offers
 
You're right, josphstalinator, VMware works only on Linux and NT (4.1 and 5). I doubt that Win98 could run VMware for more than five seconds without crashing, anyway 😉
 
It's a very nice tool. Now I can have 2, 3 or even 4 blue screens showing up in different virtual pcs simultaneously.
 
how does the file system work when youre using vmware? im assuming it running on the same partition so its not truly ext2 when youre running linux inside win2k?
 
Is it very significant speed loss than running single boot ?
What I am trying to do is running windows Me on windows 2000 pro
as well linux mandrake. I like the windows Me for Adobe imaging
and games and I love the stability of the win2k. Linux mandrake
as well for learning. Is mandrake is good or corel/ Red hat version better?



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You have 2 ways of doing the file system. You can dedicated a whole partition to each virtual machine, or you can create a virtual partition which is the whole file system in a single file on the host OS.
 
I have just completed a review on VMware 2.03 for Windows NT/2000 and Linux. I can say that you will need a lot of RAM in either machine (Linux or Windows NT/2000). I have installed Windows 98, Windows 2000, RedHat Linux 7.0 as guest machines, and they seem to run fine. My major concern is the fact that it tends to run slow, but this is by nature of the program. What I mean is, you are trying to run 2 operating systems at the same time, and this eats up CPU time and speed.

I would not use VMware unless I was doing WIN32 programming or Linux/UNIX development. If you're a programmer and can't afford to purchase an additional computer, then VMware is for you. Don't even think about running games in a guest OS. VMware is just not designed for games. I am not sure that it ever will.

I will have my entire review on VMware up on my site at the end of this week.

If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
 
one advantage that most people don't recognize is that you can use virtual machines to allow multiple users access to a single (web)server, giving each of them essentially their own machine. that way if one of them logs in and breaks cgi or something, and the server goes down, it only kills their own virtual machine, but doesn't take down the whole server.

and yes, you can't run all hardware under vmware. for example, you can't burn cd's in a virtual machine.

and no, vmware was definitely not designed for games.

-syf3r.
 
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