Re: A few questions about 10.2 and/or VMWare 5.x and/or MS Virtual PC
- From: devnull@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:51:11 -0500
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:34:01 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras
<realnc@xxxxxxxx> 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
I had run across an article - which I can't find right now - about
some things to try by modifying the .vmx file and adding a couple of
lines to it to possibly make 3D work. I'll have to hunt it back down
and post the URL. I made the mods, but then 10.2 wouldn't boot. Maybe
someone else will have better luck. From other things I've read, the
folks at VMWare are supposedly working on this for a later release.
That would be sweet!
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.
Gee, why isn't this a surprise :)
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
I'm prone to being a dreamer on occasion :)
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).
One thing as well that I noticed was I had to load the tools to get
better then an 800x600 res in the 10.2 guest. Once I loaded those, I
was able to set it to 1024x768, albeit with no 3D. Just a notation
for those who may attempt it the way I did it - those tools are
important. I think there are other tools to do drive mounts and so on
as well - the VMWare doc's talk a lot more about this.
Thanks for all the input - you and others have given me food for
thought as to how I'm going to ultimately set this up. I'll do more
testing to see what I can and can't do with the various "flavors" of
how to set this all up.
VMWare sure is a tasty, yet nutritious product.
And from the little I've seen, it really looks like Linux has come a
long way in the last few years. The last rev I loaded and screwed
around with was a Mandrake (now Mandriva I hear) 9.2 distro.
Tawk atcha later, Nikos, and thanks again.
cat
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