Give VMware LOTS of RAM! My work machine is a P2-450 with 384MB of RAM. I
give 160MB to the Windows session and turn off all swap file capability.
Why? VMware disk performance is very weak. RAM is a good way to compensate
for that. Although many benchmarks indicate that VMware has 90% or better
of the computational performance of the CPU you are using (meaning
math-intensive code should run quickly), the drag from disk and Samba access
kills my performance. It feels like a Pentium 200 or slower instead of a
P2-450. The more disk access a program does the slower it will feel
compared to native performance.
It's a tradeoff but the compatibility of VMware is excellent. I just bought
a copy of win4lin. It has more compatibility problems and only runs W95 or
W98. However, it's performance is amazing. Disk access run at Linux
speeds. After running VMware for a year, firing up win4lin felt like I had
just done a major upgrade to the system.
BTW, my disk access performance with VMware has nothing to do with my
physical hard drive being slow. The drive is a brand new 10k RPM 36GB
Seagate Cheetah. There aren't many drives that are faster. Linux disk
access screams on it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Weaver
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: 8/3/00 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] how is the performance on Vmware???
that pretty much depends on your CPU and how much RAM you have. I've got
VMware running on my home PC and my workstation at work. At work I've
got
a 500Mhz Celeron w/128MB SDRAM
At home I've got an AMD K6 233Mhz w/64MB of SDRAM.
Work PC runs well, but it's a bit choppy. Need more RAM.
At home it's about the same only a weeeeeee bit slower. Need even MORE
RAM, but all in all it runs pretty good. Definately worth what they're
asking for it.
$99 for a home license and $330 for a License for commercial use.
--
Mark
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Agrawal Sachin wrote:
>
> How is the performance on VMware???
>
> if Win95b runs on a linux OS...?
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