On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, marc jenkinson wrote:
> > > vmware is great, but my personal experience is that it take too much
> > > overhead to run on a laptop. I have a 2xPIII 500 that is runs on and is
> > > slow...
> > > On my Toshiba Tecra 8000 (pII 300) it is just way too slow to be useful
> > > for me.
> > Let me guess - you didn't install the vmware-tools. I am using vmware on a
> > Thinkpad 600 (PII 266) and my AMD K6-2 350 @ home and am quite happy with
> > it.
> Ah!! Another K6 user. A couple of questions. I tried loading Win 95 on
> my toshiba with a K6-2 300.
> I gave up after I had 2 crashes in vmware. It just came up stating I
> triggered a bug and to send a log file to vmware.
> I does state that it is not stable on win 95 with the K6 when I start
> up. What is your experience?
I run a K6/2-350 on one box here, and ran into a real nasty. M$ Windows
would crash during setup (1st reboot)- "Failed to initialise device - IOS"
There proved to be a bugfix for Windows because the K6/2-350 performs one
instruction 10 times faster than a Pentium, and screws things up. AMD fixed it
in the K6/2-400. Could it be lurking there on your processor? I believe linux
had some problems with it too (maybe a week or so ;-). That's the question to
go asking people at VMware.
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
