Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

[Greg Shikhman <cornmander@gmail.com>]

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The only issue with running WinXP inside a virtual environment is it becomes 
useless for gaming (making windows COMPLETELY useless) because VMWare 
doesn't have support for DirectX.

On 8/21/05, Sandy McGuffog <mcguffogl@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and can
> confirm it runs at near native speeds.
> 
> Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 series
> kernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find that
> Gentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be
> improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel to
> run at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has a
> clock "helper"
> 
> On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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.xseries.
> >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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."
> >
> >
> >
> 
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