On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Bradley M Keryan wrote:
[..]
> Limitations:
> * It's not free (if you're willing to pay, this is not a problem; if
> you aren't, maybe www.freemware.org will be useful)
> * If you want the VM to talk on a network, it needs its own IP (not
> surprising; this does require administrative assistance though, as
> opposed to the way Wine shares the host's IP)
What about setting up the Linux host to masquerade? Why doesn't that work
(presuming people would be doing that if it did :)?
> * AFAIK, if you run a debugger inside VMWare, you can't use
> hardware breakpoints (correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> Overall, it did the job.
>
> obLinux-Laptop: I haven't tried VMWare on my laptop yet. I *have*
> tried Wine, which really surprised me by running the windows version
> of Netscape Navigator semi-correctly (all of the text in the HTML was
> blank, but other than that it was usable, which is a little surprising
> when you're running a not-an-emulator on a P133 with only 32MB
> RAM). Unfortunately the Free ISP software I was trying to install
> (ie. ISPs with free access in exchange for an ad banner and no Linux
> support) didn't work :)
There are a couple of people on the x11 list that use juno in wine. Don't know
about full ppp setups.
> Brad, who thinks this thread and the previous one are both a
> little offtopic...
Actually the question was ontopic, as it was about running on a laptop, but
most of the follow up (including mine right now) has been offtopic ;-).
ciao,
der.hans
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