[KLUG Members] run windows within linux

[Adam Williams]

>>VMware works very well, but is expensive and pretty resource hungry.  I
>>wouldn't run on on a sub-500Mhz-256Mb box at minimum.  It will run just
>>about anything, and performance isn't bad if you have enough resources.
>>In full screen mode people won't even know they are being hosted by
>>Linux.
>Ok so what problems or slow down might I face on my current machine at home 
>which is a AMD athlon T-bird 1.2 OC'd to 1.33Mhtz with 380 Megs of DDR, 

If your Windows apps will run happily in 128Mb of RAM your shouldn't have 
a problem.  RAM is really the key (and adding more is cheap).

I've run VMware on a dual-300w256Mb and a single 128Mb NT4 instance was 
quite usable for regular stuff like IE & Office.

With my 2Ghz/1Gb laptop I can run RedHat/Ximian Desktop hosting a Windows 
2003 advanced server Beta instance, a RedHat 9/Samba3.0 instance, and a 
Windows NT4 instance all at the same time without any problems at all.

>recommend being better for most things?  I also wanted to thank everyone for 
>your help. Dirk told me you all were very helpful and I'm glad he told me 
>where to find the meetings at as well, which I plan on attending soon 
>hopefully.

Glad you joined.