[ILUG] vmware and WinNT

[Patton, Tony]

the spec of the machine is as follows :
	CPU: AMDK6 2 400
	Ram: 128Mb
	Hdd:  9.5Gb

The reason that I want to do this is that I had my laptop triple booting
Win98/NT/Linux (Mandrake 6.?).

I went to upgrade to Mandrake 7/Definite/Storm and while trying them out
lost my win partitions.

Soo, I have installed Definite Linux on the laptop taking up the complete
harddrive and prefer to use Linux most of the time, just for playing about,
and would like to have win9x/NT running inside that, if only to share files
more easily.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rik Dunphy [SMTP:Rik.Dunphy at motorola.com]
> Sent:	14 June 2000 14:57
> To:	Noel Carroll
> Cc:	Patton, Tony; 'ilug at linux.ie'; comp.os.linux at list.deja.com
> Subject:	Re: [ILUG] vmware and WinNT
> 
> Unfortunately your right!
> 
> For WinNT under VMWare you need to give it at least 72Mb of RAM! And I
> would certainly recommend making this 128Mb.
> 
> Not so easy at home, but maybe work can sign off on the 256Mb DIMM?!
> 
> Why not WINE? Well, WINE is not yet finished and not everything is
> supported fully yet. Also, it doesn't provide a native environment for
> windows software development..
> 
> Take for example something I was working on in a previous company. I was
> developing a nice app which was to work under Win9x, WinNT and Win3.x. Yes
> 3.x! THe automation industry is still finding it hard to move on....
> 
> Anyway,,,
> 
> With VMWare I can set up 3 different sessions for each OS and then run the
> app in a native environment, all be it virtual. This saves a hell of a lot
> of rebooting between all 3 OSs when testing.
> 
> RikD
> 
> Noel Carroll wrote:
> > 
> > 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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