Hey Crawford! Haven't heard from you in awhile. It's good to know
that you are still with us.
And thanks for the helpful response.
Kevin
On 4/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are actually several "levels" of VMware out there, the most noticed are
> the Workstation and GSX versions.
>
> Workstation runs as follows (which a few have described). You have a host
> operating system and computer. VMware is installed on said host. VMware
> then will accept "virtual machines" ("VM" for short) to be installed on it.
> In some cases, you can run multiple VM's, however, you are limited to (1) the
> physical size of the hard drive and (2) 50% of the total RAM amount on the
> host machine to be used. Hence why most people wonder why I have 2GBs on my
> laptops for training purposes.
>
> GSX is the "server" version of VMware. It is its own operating system
> (pseudo-Linux based per memory). It is installed on the system, then will
> run VM's underneath it.
>
> So to answer Kevin's initial questions...
> >Can VMWare be installed AFTER windows (i.e. after windows is already
> >installed)? Doesn't it run UNDER windows somehow?
> >
>
> See above, yes it will run under Windows if Windows is the host operating
> system for the Workstation version. GSX will be the host operating system
> for that situation with Windows and/or Linux being the VM's underneath.
>
> >Would there be any problem using VMWare to host a linux process on a
> >Windows server, to run GT.M in? I supposed we would have to
> >re-partition the harddrive with PartitionMagic to give the linux
> >process somewhere to work in.
> >
>
> The VM with enough allocated hard drive space initially allocated will run a
> Linux distro of choice underneath it. Information can be exchanged via a
> virtual network between the host and virtual machines real time (VMware will
> set up this virtual networking either via bridged or NAT styles).
>
> Skip the Partition Magic part, it is not needed in this case. Just allocated
> ample physical hard drive space (~8GB for a console version of a Linux
> server) and 512MB of VM's RAM (or 1GB for the whole machine) should work
> nicely.
>
> HTH, and back to lurking on the list. ;-)
>
> --- Crawford
>
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>
>
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