Ben Prescott wrote:
I've had better luck
with win4lin and win95 or 98 via
vnc than VMware. It's a bit more
limiting, but a lot faster, seems
to be cleaner as well.
>
> I tried running win '95 in a virtual machine (best place for it!) and
> accessing it via VNC, but couldn't get the graphics to work; It was all
> pink, as I recall. Also, as reported by other users, the cursors don't stay
> synched.
>
> Graphics for '98 or NT might work better, but my application (quick fix to
> find out ink levels in the printers I've hung off the server) didn't work
> anyway.
>
> have a great noughty-one.
>
> Ben.
>
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> Re: Comparing VNC to VMWare
> From: Stew Benedict ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 15:04:58 GMT
>
> I'm using it. Works well. I keep Win98 running continuously on one of my
> desktops. My primary purpose is to be able to run Quickbooks for
> bookkeeping. I also do MSAccess development and have been doing all my
> recent work on this platform. I've also run Autocad, Photoshop, and the
> other MSOffice apps. It does take a bit of horsepower though. I've given
> it 1GB and 64MB ram. Since the initial setup I upped the server RAM to
> 256MB to give Linux more resources and keep the virtual machine running.
> This is on a PIII-500. I also use VNC, but VMware keeps me from even
> having to turn on the Windows box upstairs most of the time.
>
> Stew Benedict
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>
> > I'd be curious to know if any VNC users have tried using VMWare.
> >
> > Of particular interest is Windows running on Linux using VMWare vs
> > using a Linux vncviewer to access a Windows/NT system.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -pmr
> >
> >
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