greek, greek, chinese, greek, roman... yeah, i get it, not. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. -- siddhartha gautama
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been messing around with my workstation to get it set up. > Originally it came with RedHat EL5 which lasted a couple of days > before I formatted over it. There were several little things about RH > that just didn't seem to work right. > > It took me a little bit of trial and error to set up Ubuntu because of > the mobo based raid controller I was using, but after download the > "alternate" install disk, everything went swimmingly. > > I started to download VMWare server (the free version) so that I could > run my vm's under it, but found KVM. I must say that KVM is really > kick ass. I think one of the neatest things about it is the fact that > it can be run from the command line. Want to spool up WinXp for a > quick operation: > > kvm -hda winxp.img -no-reboot > > and that will pop up a window running WinXp on your linux desktop, no > loading up a web site, clicking through different windows and then not > really knowing what's going on in the background. At first, they > weren't running near as fast as they did on vmware, but after I > realized that the cpu virtualization features were disabled in the > bios, I think the vm's might just run a little faster than vmware was > running them (I had installed vmware when RH was still on the system) > > Oh, and the wobbly windows and cube desktop can keep me entertained > for hours. > > > -- > Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead; sometimes > you're behind; the race is long, and in the end it's only with yourself. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285016 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
