[wplug] Any vmware users?

[Richard Harris]

(See below)

> > Is the Sony restore CD tied to the Vaio hardware? 
> 
> Unfortunately yes.  Very much so actually.  Just to
> check, I tried the disks on
> another Vaio (slightly different model) and it
> didn't work.

Hmmm.  Well, that seems to eliminates the fresh
install approach since the hardware profile of the
VMWare machine will be totally different.  Looks like
you may have had the correct approach to begin with: 
point the VMWare machine to the existing partition and
see if that works.  Hopefully having the underlying
hardware change under the copy of XP won't break it.  
 
 
> > When you create a new "machine" in VMWare it looks
> to
> > the OS you're installing like you've got an
> > unpartitioned C: drive.  In reality it could be
> > another Linux partition or even just a big file on
> the
> > Linux file system.
> > 
> > You can also configure the VM ahead of time to
> have a
> > D: drive as well.
> > 
> > If you do this, will the restore CD be happy?
> > 
> > - Rick
> 
> I'll have to check.  I think I have an older copy of
> vmware (evaluation
> version) that I can test with.  Thus far the only
> time I've ever used the CD is
> at start up, not once I have the operating system
> running.  So I'm not sure if
> the CDs will accept the virtual drives or not.

Based on the above, though, it won't accept the VMWare
hardware anyway.

> On another note, how well does vmware perform?  This
> is a 1.5 GHz Vaio, so I
> should have the power to run both OS's fairly well I
> would think.  Do
> applications respond well, or is there a bit of lag
> due to the emulation level?

My machine is a 650 MHz P-III with 640Mb RAM.  I have
no complaints about Linux performance or VMWare
performance for Windows 2000 Workstation.  However, I
also have a VM running Windows 98 and the emulation
there for some reason is very choppy.  The Windows
2000 emulation is very smooth.

- Rick

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Richard Harris
412.855.8763
rick at fogwater.com

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