Alas, the last time I checked vmware did not support midi, because I do the
same type of work that you do and would love to dump windows completely.
They do have sound card support and support most other peripherals (network,
serial ports, etc.) just fine. Maybe if enough people asked the for midi
support they would consider it. Of course, you could always do what I did
when my synthesizer blew up-use the keyboard to input notes in Finale. Ugh.
I have not installed the 2.0 beta but I doubt that midi support is in there.
The last time I tried vmware, it was horribly slow, even on my 400 mhz K6-2
and 128 megs of ram, but I know other folks have had better results than I
have.
Tom Trent
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> Anyone out there using vmware?
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> Question, I know that it says it is "100% compatible" with windows...
> but how does it handle periferals? Does it require that the the
> underlying linux system recognizes the periferals too? I can't
> quite envision how it's able to talk directly to the periferals
> if there's another linux operating system between it and them.
>
> Most of my pc work is music-related. Cakewalk, Finale, etc. But
> believe me, if I could do without the windows stuff, I would. If
> I convert it to a linux box and just run vmware on top, would the
> vmware'd win98 still recognize all my external devices the same
> way they do now? DVD/ROM, cd burner, two soundcards, midi inputs,
> etc...?
>
> thanks!
> Curt
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