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.
I downloaded vmware 3 days ago and installed it. I'm running a slink box
with some patato apps. The system it's self is a Dual P200 with 196mgs ram
and 2 128mg swap partitions. I had an old 170mg drive with window 95
installed on it but hasn't been booted in 2 years (Linux all the way!!!).
For those of you who are not aware of it.. Vmware requires a 2.2.x kernel
if you are running SMP. While one virtual machine will not take advantage
of the SMP, running multiple virtual machines will. Also it recommends at
least a PII 266 with either 64 or 96mgs RAM I believe. This is what they
recommend you have at least.
Anyways, after I installed it and configured it for an existing virtual
machine (if you have the other OS already installed you have to call
"vmware-wizard" with a flag.. sorry i forget what it was but it's in
their on-line docs) I found it ran quite well. I think i set it with 64mgs
ram. I found it took close to 3 full minutes to actually boot windows 95
but it was usable and not too slow. I would have to add that the slowness
was most likely due to the drive being about 10 years old and beaten
around alot :-)
I'd say if you really wanted it to be functional for windows a PII 350 to
400 plus system would make a big differnce. No idea about booting another
linux system with it tho. Maybe I'll test that next week.
As for WINE.. I saw a few people mention it with differing opinions, same
as vmware. WINE and Vmware are 2 totally different things. Personally IMHO
Vmware has many many more advantages over WINE. WINE is great and I've
used it in the past with pleasing results running apps such as mIRC, ICQ,
and a few games as smoothly as if I were in windows. But this is all WINE
does, It runs a few applications well and fails on others. Vmware actually
boots fully functional systems on top of what you have. This makes it much
more powerful.
Sorry for the ramblings.. it's 1:30AM and I really should be off to bed..
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