VMWare

[Joseph Gledhill]

I use Win4Lin with both Visual FoxPro 6.0 and VisualBasic 6.0 if those 
are close enough to VC++ then my guess is that it would work.

I run Linux at work but most of our non-web development is Windoze 
based.   I started with VMWare about a year ago but couldn't get it to 
run some of the development packages (especially Visual FoxPro).  I 
tried the demo of Win4lin and everything worked great.  I purchased 
Netraverse Win4lin and have been using it with great success for about a 
year now.  It requires kernel hooks which are a bit more of a pain if 
you use custom kernels (which I do) but once you get the hang of it, its 
trivial.

The windows installation on the win4lin box took 7 minutes less time to 
install than it did on the hardware itself.  I have found that for most 
disk-intensive ops it is as fast or faster than native mode.  For 
processor intensive ops it is slower than native mode but not overly so.

I found Win4Lin to be a substantialy faster than VMWare but it uses a 
different paradigm and may not be suitable for every situation.  Another 
nice thing is that it doesn't require a huge virtual disk area or 
partition, it will run happily on you linux filesystem.


Joseph

>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:52:06 -0700 (MST)
>From: phos4@asu.edu
>Subject: Re: VMWare
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us,
>   "John (EBo) David" <ebo@leml.la.asu.edu>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
>Has anybody run VC++6 in a Win2K virtual machine on Linux...without problems?
>
>-- Rod
>