Hello Allie Martin,
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 12:07:23 -0500 GMT your local time,
which was Sunday, April 09, 2000, 12:07:23 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Allie Martin wrote:
> 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. :)
I sold some of my old ram of with some old second hand boxes and 96 mb
is not enough...
And the Bat gets handle problemss...
Best regards,
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