Hi Wayne, I assume that you are aware of "ZEN" the Linux virtual machine ?
On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:22, Wayne Johnson wrote: > At 01:50 PM 1/28/2006, Stephen Bird typed: > Not quite accurate but close. I've been running my XpPe compilations > thru VPC then a friend that brought a machine in for upgrading & he > has the VMware Workstation on his machine so I tried it. My ISO > loaded much faster & he's running a 2500+ where as I'm running a > 3800+. His machine has a gig of ram & mine has 2gig & both machines > have comparable video cards so I saw no reason why VMware loaded my > ISO faster then I downloaded the trial version of VMware workstation > & ran that on my machine & it loaded the ISO even faster. > > I have no idea about the player other than what VMware states on > their page but if it's as fast as their workstation then what you say > would be possible. I don't know how much MSFT gets for their VPC > retail but if I were in the market to buy such an app it would be > VMware even if it were twice the price but alas I'm broke & I have > VPC so I'll stick to using that. Now I hate the wait even more & wish > I had never tried VMware's Workstation. :-( I'll get over it besides > VPC is still faster than booting the cdrom on another machine. FWIW > & as an added note, the player can NOT build VMs. I thought my buddy > Kylde was going to give me a link to his Win98 VM so that I could > save some time but alas there is an ocean between us. ;-) > > This is just one user's opinion & I am in no way affiliated with > VMware. > > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> > -- Best Regards: Derrick. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug at play-net.co.uk -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
