Dear friends:
How does VMWare for Linux allocate its RAM for its guest OS?
I have an AMD k6-2 400 hrtz with 128 megs of real RAM.
As you know, I tried to install Win3.1 as a guest OS on Vmware this past
weekend. Strangely enough, it was a total success, including use of the
modem, which allowed me to download files directly from the Net.
The only problem was that of REAL RAM.
When I booted up Win3.1 in VMware for Linux, I was told that I had a CPU
of 400 Mhrtz, 640k of conventional memory and only 15 megs of RAM. Is
that all that was left over after Linux and KDE? Is that the explanation
for the low RAM count.
If so, how could I raise the real Ram on my Win3.1 OS on VMware? Could I
use a different GUI such as xfce? Would that increase the ram left over
for Win3.1 on VMware? If so, could you please indicate how I would
switch to Xfce for this purpose?
For the record, my main interest is in being to watch certain Russian
Internet stations that, unfortunately, have chosen to broadcast on
Windows Media Player rather than RealPlayer. There is a WMP v. 3 (July,
1999) meant especially for Win3.1 that allows for full audio AND video
streaming provided a) you run it on a minimum Pentium CPU 166 and
sufficient ram. I was able to access one Russian station from Moscow on
WMP, I could "hear" it (it was obviously playing sound, I just haven't
yet succeeded in configuring the sound for Win31 on VMware) and there
was definite video. The video was "clear" but of poor quality, slow and
grained. I at first thought that there was no hope. However, I can't
help but wonder if increasing the RAM would not have produced a sharp
picture.
Bottom line: VMware requires a minimum of Pentium 266 to run the host
system and 96 megs of Ram. Windows Media Player 3.0 for Win31 Since my
AMD CPU is 400 Mhrtz and I have 128 megs of Ram, could I in some way
allocate enough RAM to make WMP work properly on my VMware for Linux?
My thanks in advance both for myself and for other colleagues who use
Linux and who might wish to be able to watch the WMP stations on VMware
for Linux on Win31 rather than bother with Winblows 95/98/2000. Let's
hope eventually Linux will produce its own streaming client to play
those WMP asf and asx files. That would be ideal.
Thanks again.
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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