vmware ??

[William Ball]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Bob Koss wrote:

> Is anyone running vmware on a thinkpad?

yes...
 
> I have RH6.0 installed on a 770Z and just installed vmware.

great!
 
> 1. The cd-rom isn't visible inside the win98 window. I tried mounting it 
> before 'booting' win98 but that doesn't work either. It's set up in 
> vmware-config ot work, yet it doesn't appear in My Computer.

hmmm... this must be a common troubleshooting problem... but how did you
install win98? from CD-ROM? didn't the '98 installer recognize the
770's CD?
 
> 2. Should I install the vmware tools or not? The vmware instructions say 
> that the tools replace the X server. But I'm running Bill's server to get 
> X to even work on the thinkpad. Will installing vmware tools undo the 
> wonderful things that Bill's server did?

as i understand (and use the server) the X server is installed on the
virtual machine if you are running Linux in a virtual machine...

> 3. Should the win98 window be resizeable? Mine isn't. 

not sure about vmware tools for 98, but the vmware X server for Linux
offers a complete range of resolutions... you can start X at 640x480 all
the way up past 1600x1280

i installed NT4.0 in a virtual machine under RH6.0 on my i1451... the
CD-ROM works for the install and i even got sound working under NT!

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