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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Peter Humphrey |
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<peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Friday 30 January 2009 15:54:43 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I've wanted to ask this for a while. I've never seen vmware running. |
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>> I'm curious about running a few Windows apps on my AMD64 machine, if |
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>> possible. Does stuff like sound work? I don't need any special |
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>> hardware. (I think) Just disk, graphics and network. |
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> In the case of VMware-server, sound works as long as your client is on the |
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> same machine as the server - not over the network, in other words. |
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Expected as sound over the network isn't the greatest thing most of |
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the time anyway. |
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>> How well does this work? vmware seems to have a good reputation. |
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> I used to run it quite effectively. It was amusing to have a screen saver |
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> running in a window: the one containing VMware. I only stopped using it |
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> when I started running XP on a new laptop, which suited me a bit better. |
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good info. Thanks. |
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- Mark |
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