Haven't tried win4lin... so... not sure.. will have to check it out and see..
will install it tomorrow and (assuming that I get some project time) see how it
goes comparatively.. however... with VMware 2.0 and the wmtools installed ...
it seems to have very good hardware support.. serial, parallel (including
bidirectional) raw or virtual hard disks, SCSI (though I am still having a
little trouble getting the SCSI Zip to work right), sound, modems, all the good
stuff so far...
Running Win9x or MSDOS in it seems to be a little slower though simply because
it needs so much more CPU time.. (often see the CPU at 100% with either)
however, NT and win2k do very nicely (windows millenium RC-1 won't install
though.. blue screens about halfway through... still have to figure out what
that bug's all about... but it's a windoze bug...)
On Tue, 30 May 2000, you wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> Are you saying that VMWare has better hardware support than Win4lin?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
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> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Magnus wrote:
>
> > You can set VMWare to use the linux devices though.. almost as good as direct
> > access.. <chuckle>.. I use it at work for running Notes, a frontend for an
> > Oracle database, Netscape, and a few other interfaces for the previous
> > database, I even play a few games on it (though I still can't get Q3 working..
> > neeeds a real video.. oh well.. ) It works pretty well.. if you are just
> > running apps and such, you shoud be fine... one of these days I am planning on
> > putting up a VM for an answering machine software that I have for windows.
> > Just my $.02
> >
> > On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > I think VMware has a free trial, so you could try that. If
> > > you're running programs that will only work with direct access
> > > to hardware, then don't use either. Otherwise, for programs
> > > like MS-Office and programs that don't have a lot of "vxd's"
> > > I'd choose win4lin. On a fast enough machine, maybe VMware.
> > >
> > > "Stephen A. Brenner" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm interested in trying one of these and weening myself
> > > > away from Microsoft. Which one would people recommend?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Steve
> >
