[SLE] Re: Windows install *after* Linux

HI Paul et al..
On Saturday 23 September 2006 20:54, Paul Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 22 September 2006 3:31 pm, James Hatridge wrote:
Now that VMware has a
free server version I run only Linux with XP running under VMware. I've
had very little problem with it. One neat thing is that XP is one (huge)
file that once I had it like I wanted, I backed up this file. Now
whenever I mess up XP I just delete the file and replace it from the
backup.

What are the limitations of the free server version versus the paid
version? I hadn't heard that there was a free version of VMWare. How much
of a performance hit, if any, have you noticed?

Paul

Very little, its much better than trying to use wine.

At one point I had KDE running with audio going and two or three programs,
Kmail etc, at the same time I was installing a program and running Photoshop
under XP the audio started skipping a bit. So I stopped XP (suspend) until
the music stopped (it was my wife's music, ie better to wait for it to finish
than to stop it) She can get gumpy! :)

As far as the free vs paid version, I understand that the paid version has
tools to allow you to program VMware itself. Since I only want to run XP etc
under it, I don't need all the bells etc.

BTW, I have a 2.3ghz system with 1gb main memory.

You can use this link to get to the page with the free download:

http://vmware.rsc02.net/servlet/cc5?NuOpQSAYSQTUVcHuLkQaHljpKnLxnuzfQKLV2VAU

Please note that its a bit over 100mb download.

Hope this helps,

JIM

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