Re: A few questions about 10.2 and/or VMWare 5.x and/or MS Virtual PC
- From: Jim Jones <okieman7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:31:41 -0600
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
cat wrote:
I just got 10.2 up and running under VMWare 5.5.3 using XP Pro as a host.
As others mentioned, it's more smooth the other way around (10.2 as
host, XP as guest.) VMware seems better optimized to run XP inside it
rather than anything else.
A few questions for you wizards if you don't mind:
1. It seems that XGL isn't supported on VMWare as of yet - at least from
what I've read on the VMWare forums - has anyone had any success with
this
or could you give me some pointers on some things to try to
perhaps get it to work?
3D acceleration is only supported with XP running both as guest as well
as host. :P
2. Regarding the above question, does MS Virtual PC do a better job at
this?
Virtual PC has huge problems running anything inside it that doesn't
have "Microsoft" in it's name. That means no special tools (like VMware
tools) or drivers. You'll be stuck with slow mouse, 16 (or 256) color
graphics and slow or no network at all.
It's only good for running Microsoft OSes as guests.
3. I've got another box dual booting with W2K and Ubuntu 6.10, but I"m
thinking of wiping that entirely and just loading 10.2 on it, but it's
only got an old ATI Rage Pro video card and 384 megs of RAM - will 10.2
suck on it and will XGL run at all?
Forget it :P
4. At some point in this lifetime, I'd like to give Windoze the heave ho
once and for all, but I've got apps I just can't leave behind
(proprietary
stuff like ham radio and other comm gear software/Zire apps/etc.) - are
the above options (and maybe MS Virtual Server) pretty much what I've got
as far as setting this with both OS's without doing the dual boot merry
go round?
If you intent to gradually switch to Linux, it's best to install Linux
on the PC, install VMware and run XP as a guest. Way more smooth (but
no 3D support in the XP guest). After you install the VMware tools in
the XP guest, the speed is just awesome.
Note that the VMware tools don't come with the freeware versions of
VMware (Player and Server). You have to extract them from the VMware
Workstation tar.gz (it's an ISO inside the tar.gz; extract that and
mount it in the XP guest; it will autostart and install the tools and
mouse/graphics drivers).
I have the free VmWare Server 1.0.1 running on both a windows box and a
SuSe 10.0 box. It has VmTools in both versions. I have a windows install
running on the Suse 10.0 box and have Vmtools installed in it. The
windows install does indeed appear to behave better running as a guest
on the Suse box than it ever has running native on it's own.
Jim
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