[ILUG] vmware and WinNT

[Noel Carroll]

Yeah but to run VMWare, like Star Office, you need to contact Kingston or
somebody and get them to send you over a few truckloads of RAM.  I've tried
it out at home and gave it up as a bad job.   Why not just use WINE.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rik Dunphy [mailto:Rik.Dunphy at motorola.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:02 PM
> To: Patton, Tony
> Cc: 'ilug at linux.ie'; comp.os.linux at list.deja.com
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] vmware and WinNT
> 
> 
> WinNT actually runs better under VMWare than Win9x.
> 
> I setup using native partitions for NT (4.0) so it could use 
> NTFS and all
> ran very well. In fact the BSOD appeared less often than native NT. I
> suspect it was to do with the minimal driver set provided by VMWare. 
> 
> Just make sure you download the toolkit for Windows from the 
> VMWare site,
> which will give you a good SVGA screen etc..
> 
> RikD
> 
> "Patton, Tony" wrote:
> > 
> > has anyone here ran WinNT on linux via vmware?
> > 
> > if so where there any problems?
> > 
> > Tony Patton
> > 
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