Re: VMWare

[Jor-el <jorel@trillian.megadodo.umb>]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare Workstation in 
> order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU Linux as the host machine.
> 
Marcelo,

	Not quite what you asked for, but I am running VMWare on Debian
testing / unstable and am running Redhat 7.2 in one of the VM sessions.
Why? Some of the non-free software (DB2 etc) on linux comes with rpm
installs and alien didnt quite do the trick.

	I've got a dual Pentium-II 400MHz system with 256 Mb of RAM and
with 128 MB allocated to the VM session, with KDE and DB2 loaded, the VM
started to swap. I didnt observe any response times problems though. Which
means all my problems could be fixed with more memory. One niggling
limitation though : the VMWare version that I am using (3.0.0 build 1455)
has a max of 204MB that can be allocated to a VM session. If you need more
than that for a VM session, you are SOL.

Regards,
Jor-el