Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Lee Revell wrote:
> With VMWare 2.0 on my box (Celeron 300A @ 450mhz, 320MB RAM, Quantum 10K
> RPM LVD SCSI drive on an AHA2940U2W, TNT2 Ultra w/ 32MB video ram),
> Win98 SE is sluggish but usable, like on a P233. The thing that really
> kills usability for me is that the mouse is slow to respond - there is a
> noticeable latency between moving the thing and seeing the pointer
> move. I couldn't come up with a way to fix this. Word, IE, etc. seem
> to take only a little longer to load that in native Win98, but that damn
> latency keeps reminding you that it's not native Windows. If they can
> fix it with the mouse it would be tolerable for most other things. It's
> like going back to dialup after getting used to DSL - a hassle but you
> can get things done if need be. But it beats the hell out of having to
> reboot to use Word.
Hmm, I haven't had any problems with the mouse. You have installed the
VMWare Tools in Win98 right? You might also want to make sure you have
the latest version of VMware. I noticed a huge mouse latency problem in
the earlier versions, but none in the current version.
>
> HTH,
>
> rlr
>
> Jeff Noxon wrote:
> >
> > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and
> > gave up.
> >
>
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-bob
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