[NCLUG] Cheapskate thanks you for your kind assistance

[John L. Bass]

	On Thu, 16 May 2002, John L. Bass wrote:

	> I downloaded the VMWare trial a few months back and had significant
	> problems with stability of the linux side network emulation ... it would
	> lock up and the linux side would have to be restarted (sometimes several
	> times). Also had several other interesting problems with mouse/keyboard
	> input coordination/lockup. All of this was with WinME as the windows OS.
	> Your milage may vary - while mostly ok, for me it was far from
	> satisfactory for the cost.

	You probably had funky hardware or something; I've been using VMware since
	2.0.3 (and when they had student pricing ;-), and I've tried Win4Lin and
	nothing beats VMware; it just works (tm).

	The weirdest thing I've ever experienced is VMware putting the keyboard
	into a weird mode (could only type caps) during startup... but this was
	because I was actually trying to type, and I switched modes between an X
	proggie and VMware, and it probably got confused... not really VMware's
	fault.

	Later,
	Paul

When the Linux box it's on has dead stable networking and keyboard/mouse as
a desktop, and the only application that is having problems is VMWare, that
pretty much rules out hardware.

John