[ltp] Re: Ultrabay hard drive

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:37, Josh wrote:

> I looked at vmware a little bit.  Wouldn't it slow the
> computer down to use Windows as well as programs on
> top of Linux?

A slow computer will seem slow when running VMware as well - a fast compute=
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runs VMware clients fast too.

> Or will it work reasonably well?

Subjective.  Try it with VMware player and a pre-built OS, available at=20
www.vmware.com

Note also there are instructions on the web for creating VMware virtual=20
machines w/o owning VMware and using them in VMware player.  (I did in fact=
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pay for VMware Workstation.)

> Is there any part of Windows that doesn't run=20
> well under VMware?

If your host (GNU/Linux in our case) doesn't have drivers for hardware, VMw=
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won't see it - thus my Windows 98 PCMCIA video input card is lost to Window=
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running in VMware, as GNU/Linux has no drivers for the card, so can't prese=
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it to the VMware virtual machine to pass on to Windows running inside VMwar=
e.

Also, I believe USB2 becomes USB1 on it's way through, but I'm not so sure=
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about that.

Cheers,
Bret

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