On Friday June 22 2007 12:50:05 pm Kai Ponte wrote: > On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > >> On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to > >> > SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main > >> > application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based > >> > controls. > >> > > >> > In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a > >> > >> 1400x1050 > >> > >> > resolution with the application running just fine inside. I have > >> > no problems with speed or response. > >> > > >> > I'd say this is the best of both worlds - a legacy OS like Windows > >> > running inside SUSE. > >> > >> Alternatively, you could try VirtualBox. > > > > He's happy with what he's got. Why mess with it? VMware is very good, > > very sound, very mature, very well supported. I doubt that can yet be > > said of VirtualBox. > > Agreed. I spent hours setting up my virtual machine the way I want it. > I don't plan to scrap it and start over. > > However, it is nice to see that there are free competitors. I plan to > buy a new home PC this year for my wife. I'll install SUSE, of course. > I plan for her to have a virtual machine. Maybe I'll use VirtualBox > for it to run XP/2K apps.
Do like I did and install both on the same hardware. VirtualBox seems to be a lighter weight option in that it runs very well on <1GHz processors and <512MB RAM. VirtualBox doesn't have all the bells and whistles of VMware especially in the network setup. It does seem to me on my hardware to be quicker though; faster to load, faster to shutdown, faster running. Same application load, same updates, same virtual disk size, same memory size usage, etc. I have a free copy of VMware 5.5 so the cost isn't an issue. I am not doing any stress testing other than browser testing of websites, tech support of customers Windows problems, etc. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
