On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
wrote:

> I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and
> run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do
> much damage.

That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for
Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually
as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed
from the virtual disks.

VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series.

> As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
> licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free.

That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O


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Neil Bothwick

A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the
entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, "Wish you were here."