RE: wmware on Debian
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On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:02:24 -0000 (UTC), Pollywog wrote:
>> Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times,
>> and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things
>> with it (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ...
It really isn't that hard. Just a case of RTFFP.
>Interesting. When VMWare first came out, I was using OpenLinux, and I did
>not see any complaints about VMWare on the Caldera mailing list, only
>comments about how good it was. Maybe it is one of those libc6 v. libc5
>issues.
Nope, in this case I think the problem is between the chair and the
keyboard. I got it up and running in about an hour, main problem was getting
portions to compile with the current kernel so I could have networking. Has
Win95 installed about 3 hours after that. It is not the fastest thing on the
block when you only give it 16MB of RAM which ends up coming partially out of
swap and running it in on a P5-100. But once installed Windows ran fine,
networked with the rest of my network flawlessly. Was quite interesting SMB
mounting a drive from the same physical machine. I was almost half tempted to
install FreeBSD just to tweak the nose of my friend who is a FreeBSD, ex-Linux
user. :)
>I did not try it then because I did not have a Win95 CD, only floppies. I
>see now that it will accept the guest OS on floppies.
Yup. Personally, I think for developers VMWare is something of a godsend.
Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your machine, give it ~16Mb or
so, and then run Debian inside Debian. The outer Debian is stable, the inner
is unstable. I won't call it the "perfect" sandbox, but for $99 bucks, it is
a damned good sandbox. Test out what unstable will do and if it screws up,
darn, reinstall, didn't affect your production environment.
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