VMWare, was: Re: Win4Lin Experience?

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Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:28:13 -0700


"John (EBo) David" wrote:
> 
> If I am following the discussion correctly, there is also a product
> called VMWare.  I am able to run most windows software in a Windows,
> window without dual booting.  I have had some problems with it, but they
> are all related to running it on a dual processor system and the 2.4
> kernal.  I just got notice though that they got the 2.4.* problems
> solved...
> 
>   EBo --

The latest release (last week?) of VMWare GSX server is *much* happier
on a 2-cpu box with 1GB RAM, I haven't tried it again under 2.4.x yet. 
The "Bigmem" problems seem to be resolved. They also just released a
beta of VMWare workstation 3.0 - I haven't downloaded it though (maybe
tonight).

Steve