VMWare (Recommendation)
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Hi All, I'm adding this thread as some sort of public service :rose: . I have *no* connection with VMWare other than as an amazed customer. With VMWare you can run more than one o/s on a PC at the same time, for example Windows 2000 and LINUX. In my company www.sysgem.com we do this a lot when demoing our Windows/UNIX products at customer sites. I sometimes run up to 4 o/s at the same time: Windows 2000 as the Host, then LINUX, Novell and WINDOWS NT 4.0 (German) as Guests. Look at www.vmware.com, there is very good support and active newsgroups. Simon :rolleyes:
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Hi All, I'm adding this thread as some sort of public service :rose: . I have *no* connection with VMWare other than as an amazed customer. With VMWare you can run more than one o/s on a PC at the same time, for example Windows 2000 and LINUX. In my company www.sysgem.com we do this a lot when demoing our Windows/UNIX products at customer sites. I sometimes run up to 4 o/s at the same time: Windows 2000 as the Host, then LINUX, Novell and WINDOWS NT 4.0 (German) as Guests. Look at www.vmware.com, there is very good support and active newsgroups. Simon :rolleyes:
You're absolutely right. I love VMWare, or at least I did before trying to use it too much! I use it to read my emails which are unavailable under Linux but if I leave a VMWare session (with Win98SE) running too long it leaks memory like a seive and logs me out of X windows! I know people who use it a lot though. If I had 1Gb RAM I'd even use it for Windows development (which I still do!). I've also seen people pull their hair out over it though if it doesn't recognise your video card.
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You're absolutely right. I love VMWare, or at least I did before trying to use it too much! I use it to read my emails which are unavailable under Linux but if I leave a VMWare session (with Win98SE) running too long it leaks memory like a seive and logs me out of X windows! I know people who use it a lot though. If I had 1Gb RAM I'd even use it for Windows development (which I still do!). I've also seen people pull their hair out over it though if it doesn't recognise your video card.
I know that the development and bug-fixing is very active, the clever thing they do is to emulte (I think) a standard video and network card, so if someone has the problems you described above then IMO it's finger trouble. As a neophyte LINUX bod I have installed Mandrake, SUSE and RedHat without any problem at all. One thing I like is the ability to quickly fire up Mandrake without having to switch another machine on, also when I'm at a customer site it's great to have access to Windows and UNIX on the same laptop. :eek:
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I know that the development and bug-fixing is very active, the clever thing they do is to emulte (I think) a standard video and network card, so if someone has the problems you described above then IMO it's finger trouble. As a neophyte LINUX bod I have installed Mandrake, SUSE and RedHat without any problem at all. One thing I like is the ability to quickly fire up Mandrake without having to switch another machine on, also when I'm at a customer site it's great to have access to Windows and UNIX on the same laptop. :eek:
Yep, like it here as well. Its pretty handy for testing all the differenct configs machines can come in to please QA. You can just copy the 5 files, and with a small tweak create a new machine, rather than the half hour to install Windows. I'm sure your not supposed to do this though. The only problem I've had is that that Corel Linux will not seem to install. I've tried it on 3 seperate hosts, alll different.
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Yep, like it here as well. Its pretty handy for testing all the differenct configs machines can come in to please QA. You can just copy the 5 files, and with a small tweak create a new machine, rather than the half hour to install Windows. I'm sure your not supposed to do this though. The only problem I've had is that that Corel Linux will not seem to install. I've tried it on 3 seperate hosts, alll different.
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There is 1 question I have had about Virtual Machines, and networking. What if you set up an FTP server on Windows, and Linux under VMWare. When someone tries to FTP to you, which one do they get?
You can install a virtual machine, and it can be assigned a unique IP address, which the hosts(real) network card holds. So even the host thinks there is a new machine on the network, when infact it is itself emulating that machine. If you try it, you can ping each machine from the Dos prompt. Its really quite cool when you first try it. Very clever. The best thing is its only a 5 Meg install - Ha. Likewise, two virtual machines can ping each other, if they are assigned unique IP addresses.