[NCLUG] RFC: Tuesday Night Hacking Club?

Brian Stanback bhs at stanback.net
Mon Nov 26 18:51:56 MST 2001


You might want to try out win4linux (http://www.netraverse.com/), I have
had more success with this than I have had with MVWare.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:56:41AM -0700, john starkey wrote:
> >I tried VMWare on a 333 AMD with 192 megs and it was slow.... really
> >slow. Also very hard to work with *at times with very little resources
> >available*. But it (the window Windows was in) locked up all the time
> >so you had that genuine Windows feeling. :}
>
> We've been running VMWare for access to quickbooks for a couple of years
> now, and have been pretty happy with it.  I found that giving the GuestOS
> 64MB worked fine if I had 256MB of RAM.  This is on a Celeron 500...
> 256MB is the minimum I recommend for VMWare.  These days 256MB is pretty
> cheap, though, so no reason not to.
>
> Sean
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