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I too run VMWare 5 on XP (as well as a dual boot installation) and can |
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confirm it runs at near native speeds. |
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Be aware however that there is an issue with the clock on 2.4 series |
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kernels - due to the changes made to run at 1000Hz, you will find that |
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Gentoo's clock no longer keeps perfect time. This problem can be |
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improved, but not completely solved, by (a) recompiling the kernel to |
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run at a lower clock and (b) running the VMWare toolkit, which has a |
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clock "helper" |
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On 8/21/05, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:46:20 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales |
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> wrote: |
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> > I agree with John. It is better to have a robust system (Gentoo) and |
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> > run the bad one (Windows) on user space (via VMWare) so it can't do |
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> > much damage. |
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> That's how I do it and it works well. I very rarely use VMWare for |
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> Windows, mainly for testing on different Linux distros. It runs virtually |
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> as fast as native hardware, apart from a slight reduction in disk speed |
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> from the virtual disks. |
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> VMWare 5 is very nice, and runs much better on amd64 than the 4.x series. |
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> > As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a |
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> > licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free. |
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> That's hardly an issue if he's going to run Windows with it :-O |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> A friend of mine sent me a postcard with a satellite photo of the |
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> entire planet on it, and on the back he wrote, "Wish you were here." |
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