-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I bought VMware Workstation, mainly so I could resurrect my win98 gaming platform. Of course it is also a very useful utility for getting work done :)
I still prefer VMWare to the other solutions, especially on my laptop. Wendell Nichols wrote: > I have a similar situation on my laptop. A windoze and a linux > partition. I have vmware installed on both images. When I'm running > linux I can start a virtual machine to boot my windows partition using > the "raw disk". You gotta be careful never to boot the same system as > your host is running (ie. boot linux form linux) or there is no hope for > your disk! > In windows I defined two boot configs: native and vmware so that it > doesn't reconfigure it's drivers every time I boot. > I found that I had to give the user that starts vmware r/w access to my > /dev/hdc so that vmware will run non-root. > > vmware rocks. > wcn > > > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> Hardware is still abstracted out. You get really good CPU performance >> but I am not sure about the rest of the system , particularly your video >> and sound cards. My understanding is that Windows drivers need direct >> access to the hardware, but since I don't really care I have not looked >> in to this :) >> >> Also, these CPUs are available today. The Core 2 chips support it, as >> do some of the latest AMD AM2 (apparently the Turion in my laptop has >> the virtualization support, but Xen has not quite got the support for >> AMD "Pacifica" yet). Also, power management, CPUFreq (aka Speedstep or >> Powernow) are broken in Xen the last time I checked. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Nick Wiltshire wrote: >>>> On Saturday 07 October 2006 1:22 am, Gustin Johnson wrote: >>>>> Also, I don't think that Xen is really going to help you with your >> gaming. >>>> Maybe I misunderstood but from my reading it will allow both OSes >> access to >>>> the hardware, but I'll need to buy a new computer first, which I >> don't think >>>> is available to the general public yet :) >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFOUHLwRXgH3rKGfMRAkOmAKCTH/ifV/XoPVDE0SJGcfW4L6RdxACeL5Qq SumU+d2nRgqxaHWhIaiYKCs= =UUYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
