On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 09:01:24 -0500, Gary wrote:
> I am going to put VMWare on my W2K this weekend, and guest Linux.
> You mention above speed is greatly reduced. Can you tell me by how
> much, and what type of machine are you running? I have a PII 400,
> and would love to move over to Linux, except like you for a few apps
> which are needed for W2K.
I ran Linux using VMWare for NT and it was rather nice. This
is a RAM intensive setup and this is the basis behind slow downs. If
you have enough RAM then things will run smoothly. You basically
assign the virtual machine a certain amount of RAM. I had a 128MB
system at the time so I allocated 48MB to the VMWare virtual machine.
Linux ran very well with this memory allocation provided the VMWare
session had gotten itself comfortable and a lot of NT's workings were
paged to the pagefile. I found that slowdowns occurred mainly when
switching from NT to Linux and back. A lot of swapping would take
place during the transition and then things would settle down to a
nice speed. I now have 256MB of RAM and I'm sure that things would be
that much nicer. I've however not reinstalled VMWare and Linux since
installing Win2k. I've lost interest. :)
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