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Thanks Paul. |
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> 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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>> How well does this work? vmware seems to have a good reputation. What |
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>> are the Open Source alternatives? |
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>> If someone has a good pointer to something that walks a newbie through |
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>> setting this up and running Win XP then that would be cool. I have XP |
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>> licenses if necessary. |
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> It's easy. If your CPU supports virtualization, make sure it is |
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> enabled in your BIOS settings and the virtual machine will run at |
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> nearly full speed (given sufficient RAM). |
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Are there any flags in /proc/cpuinfo that show this? The processors is |
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a 4 year old AMD64. Likely or not? |
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Also, is this a requirement to make it work, or just makes it work better? |
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> Just emerge the version of |
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> your choice (I suggest using the vmware overlay fort this). I think |
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> vmware-server vmware-server-console are still free. If you don't use |
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> bleeding-edge kernels, it's even easier. VMWare is one of those |
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> closed-source programs with kernel modules that gets broken every time |
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> there's a new kernel released. |
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> Yes, I think sound and everything works in the free vmware-server |
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> except for hotplugging USB devices. In vmware-workstation (commercial |
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> product), plugging in USB devices work (so you can run itunes in |
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> vmware and sync your ipod to it, for example). There is VERY minimal |
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> directx/3D support but it's so bad it might as well not even exist. So |
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> it'll be a 2D-only windows box (no fancy gaming will happen). |
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That's OK, but it does raise the question about USB license dongles |
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which one program I have requires. If I get things working at all I |
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guess I can test that or ask back at that time. |
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> For alternatives there is VirtualBox, QEMU and a few kernel-based for |
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> making a virtualization server. I've not used those so I can't say |
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> anything about them. |
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Thanks! |
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- Mark |
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