[ltp] OT: 760XL Recovery CD

James Holden linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:24:50 +0100


It's not too bad if you use a raw partition though, instead of a disk-in-a-file 
type setup.

James

Quoting Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@innominate.com>:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:43:58 +0100, James Holden wrote:
> > It shouldn't make a lot of difference, as it's virtualisation software. The
> 
> > Guest OS runs directly on the CPU, not an emulated one. Hence, VMWare won't
> let 
> > you run Windows on a Mac. All VMWare needs is plenty of RAM, but that's
> cheap 
> > anyway these days. I wouldn't bother with Bochs or plex86 though, as they
> 
> > emulate the CPU too.
> 
> Yes, VMware gives you the full CPU performance, but it eats memory and I/O
> performance ist very lousy. The last point will make it fell a P166 like a
> 486
> I think (comparing to my experience on a K6-2 375 MHz/128 MB RAM).
> 
> Regards,
> Tino
> 
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