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Re: vmware (was: [Fwd: have these subjects been discussed ?])
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All I've heard so far is "pros". Are there any "cons" at all? Is there
anything that _doesn't_ work? How is backup/restore handled?
plug@lists.nothinbut.net on 05/28/99 11:30:20 AM
Please respond to darxus@Op.Net
To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
cc: (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
Subject: Re: vmware (was: [Fwd: have these subjects been discussed ?])
On Thu, 27 May 1999, ray beckler wrote:
> I've used a similar package under SCO openserver. ALMOST everything
worked.
> Networking, especially dialup failed. Once that failed it was
unreliable, not
> that win95 is reliable anyway. The SCO package could not boot an
existing
> win95 partition, everything had to be installed on a SCO partition. How
does
> this package access win95, etc?
(all this stuff is in the FAQ/on the webpage)
VMWare can boot off a virtual disk existing in a file on the linux
partition, or it can boot off a raw ide partion, with a previous
installation of win95/98/NT/etc.. It's got some neat disk modes... with
one of them, when you shut vmware down, you can pick wheither to write all
your modifications from that session to disk, or undo them.
Networking... I've seen stuff about comm ports. The part that stuck in my
head was the fact that you can map them to any linux file. I'm pretty
certain you can also map them directly to your modem device. But I
haven't used that, because vmware creates a virtual tcp/ip network between
the host & guest OS, and I bring up my dialup connection under linux, and
use IP Masquerading to route through that connection from my guest OS.
It's neat. Thismorning I downloaded & installed IE5, in vmware under
linux.
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