On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Beso wrote: > > 2010/1/27 Mark Knecht >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM, The Doctor wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Mark Knecht wrote: >> > >> >> The last time I looked at this (maybe a year ago?) I decided that the >> >> vmware-workstation would let a home user run something like two >> >> instances without charges. Not free in that I'm limited to something >> >> specific but no cost. (Is that free beer? It certainly doesn't sound >> >> like Free Speech...) >> > >> > There is also a 60-day time limit on the un-paid-for version of VMware >> > Workstation, as I recall. >> > >> > - -- >> > >> > The Doctor [412/724/301/703] >> >> I got VirtualBox up and running with XP but nothing much more >> yesterday as I ran into XP licensing issues again with M$ and sort of >> backed off. >> >> I haven't figured out what's up with vmware-player networking yet. I >> can get to the web in a browser just fine, do updates through M$ >> Update, do GMail. It looks perfect. However WinSCP running in >> vmware-player isn't yet finding other machines on my network. IIRC >> there were different models of networking you could set up. I have to >> go back and relearn that stuff but it's not critical to me until I >> determine if the new machine is really fast enough to run TradeStation >> and, very importantly, if the networking is stable enough and >> transparent enough to allow me to connect to their network for real >> futures trading. That will force me to dig in if it isn't OK right >> now. > > are you sure that it isn't your routing tables that aren't ok? try > tracerouting the ip you're trying to access and see if you can reach it. > if you cannot you'd have to add the correct routing entries in windows > routing tables. > -- > dott. ing. beso > Actually I was pretty sure it _was_ routing. I just hadn't had time to look into it at that point. At this point I have. It seems the copied image decided to go with DHCP (or I had it that way and forgot) so I was pointing at the wrong IP address. It all works fine now. Ah, the power of Gentoo on multiprocessor systems. There is a standard benchmark everyone runs on TradeStation just to gauge the relative speeds of their systems. The fastest reported so far has been about 3 1/2 minutes running on a very expensive i7-9_something. (IIRC he paid maybe $1K for the processor and MB, then $300 for a new copy of Win7 Professional.) This new machine of mine with the new Core i5-661 and standard memory speeds (I have gaming memory but haven't speed up to those gaming speeds yet) ran about 4 minutes 18 seconds using XP native. This morning, using Gentoo AMD64 and VMWare Player running a Win XP image the same TradeStation benchmark ran 4 minutes 20 seconds. Essentially identical. And with proof that VMWare limited itself to 1 processor I suspect I can run 4 copies in parallel and except for the memory and disk access parts of it essentially cut the speed by a factor of 4. (Oh yeah - I'll probably want better cooling...) Of course I'll need to prove this but the future looks bright! Not sure if the list allows attachments but I did a screen capture of top showing processor usage as the optimization benchmark was running. 1 processor pegged, everything else idle. Cheers, Mark