Has anybody run VC++6 in a Win2K virtual machine on Linux...without problems? -- Rod Quoting "John (EBo) David" : > 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 -- > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >