Re: wmware on Debian
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on
> their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat.
>
>
> --
> Andrew
You got enough answers that I really don't need to throw in my $0.02, but
here goes.
I've got it running on a Gateway2000 E3000 (P5-233) w/ 64MB RAM. I didn't
have any real trouble installing it (except that I'm still enough of a
Dewbie to not really know what I'm doing). I've got WinNT running in a
window and Win95 running in a window next to that; both have been
allocated 32MB RAM. They both perform fairly well (about like how a
Timbuktu (or PCAnywhere?) session over an ethernet LAN performs). I'm only
using it as a demo of what can be accomplished, but everything I've thrown
at it (except for one game) works well (but then I haven't thrown
EVERYTHING at it).
I'm very impressed with the technology, but the price ($300 for a
corporate user, $99 for individual, unknown for Academic) will prevent me
from keeping it; not because it's not worth it, but because I can't
justify it on campus since the word from above is that "Linux is NOT
coming to campus" (but I know it IS, and has already made some inroads --
nonetheless, I don't control the purse-strings).
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