[ltp] [Slightly OT] : VMware.

[Tino Keitel]

On Monday,  7. May 2001 10:53, Crispin Cowan wrote:
> sylvestre meininger wrote:
> > I just read Michael Geary's post about VMware on the TP Mailing LIst and
> > I have a rather simple question :
> > The correct version of VMware will enable you to use Windows software
> > under Linux. But do you actually need to have a MS operating system
> > installed somewhere ? Or is VMware a true emulator ?
>
> No, you do not need a real Windows install on the hardware:  VMWare is a
> true emulator.  I have VMWare installed, using a 500 MB virtual drive, and
> run NT 4.0 SP6 on top of that.  I use it daily for access to MS Office and
> Adobe Frame Maker on my otherwise Linux TP 770.
>
> You *can* get VMWare to actually access & use a Windows install on the
> native hardware, but it is tricky.  The trick is that the VMWare emulator
> presents different hardware than the native hardware does, and so you need
> to use a Windows feature that (I'm told) is called "profiles" that lets
> Windows boot different hardware.  I don't understand this, and don't use
> it, so don't ask me how to do it :-)

I use profiles to use my NT 4 installation native _and_ in VMWare and it 
works great. There is an "original configuration" for native use and a 
"VMWare configuration" that you have to create yourself and tell it to use 
the IDE, graphic and sound drivers for VMWare and disable the drivers for 
your native hardware in this VMWare profile. And of course you must chose the 
right configuration at startup.

Tino

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