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Has anybody run VC++6 in a Win2K virtual machine on Linux...without problems?

-- Rod










Quoting "John (EBo) David" <ebo@leml.la.asu.edu>:

> Kevin Buettner wrote:
> >
> > My experiences have been quite the opposite of yours.  I've been
> running
> > it for around three years now and have been quite pleased.  Recently,
> I
> > upgraded to their latest workstation offering.
> >
> > > They do not (at least last time I checked) support the advanced
> kernel
> > > features.  When I upgraded from SuSE 6.1 to 7.1 VMWare upchucked
> big
> > > time and has refused to recompile the drivers ever since --
> problem
> > > 64-bit kernel mode not supported.
> >
> > How much memory do you have?  It's true (according to their web
> page)
> > that they don't support PAE mode, but you don't need a kernel with
> > PAE enabled unless you have more than 4GB of physical memory.
>
> Only 512 MB, however the way I set up my disks initially caused
> multiple
> configurations coexisting on /boot some headaches installing.  It was
> generally fine with for a single version of the OS, but...
>
> I'll try installing it again.
>
> > Which version are you looking at?  I just took a look at their
> website
> > and their most recent workstation product does run Linux as either
> the
> > host or the guest.  Their low(er) end server product does too.
> Their
> > high end server product doesn't run on *either* Windows or Linux.
> > Instead, they have their own OS.
>
> Well, I stand corrected.  They do have version 3.0 out for Linux.  I
> wish I could find the page that gave the specifics that left the
> impression that it did not.  My apologies for the misinformation.
>
> > As I said earlier, I've been running their workstation product on a
> > dual processor machine without any difficulties whatsoever.  As for
> > pushing the envelope, I guess it depends upon what you mean by that.
> > I'm not running PAE mode enabled kernels.  Also, the Windows
> > applications that I run are not graphics intensive.  As Bob George
> > pointed out, if you're into serious Windows gaming, vmware won't be
> a
> > good choice.  For the original poster's purposes though, it may be
> the
> > perfect solution to avoid booting back into Windows to run those
> Windows
> > applications which don't yet have good counterparts on Linux.
>
> no, I typically do not do gaming.  However I do cross platform code
> development and bought the thing to bounce back and forth and
> recompile/test, etc. my Qt interfaces...  I do however run some
> modeling
> programs which only run on Win* and I have some specialized sound
> stuff
> which I have found no equivalent yet.  The sound on the SMP machine
> kept
> bouncing back and forth between the two processors.
>
> > Wine (from CodeWeavers) might also be worth a try.  I gave it a
> > try yesterday on one of the applications that I care about and was
> > surprised to find that it mostly works.  On another application
> > though, the install went okay, but when I tried to run the installed
> > ap, it seemed to get hung in some sort of tight loop -- top showed
> > it consuming all of the CPU.
>
> Now that I've just upgraded the OS and reconfigured the disk topology
> I'll take another look to see if I can get it all working.  I'll
> report
> back on what I find with the current stuff. It would be a god send to
> get ANYTHING working so that I do not have to play either the reboot
> or
> office-chair shuffle...
>
> As a note, wine seems to buggy still, and I'll also have a look at
> win4linux as someone suggested.
>
>
>  EBo --
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