[KLUG Members] VMWare 5.5 Stability

[Mark Bystry]

with all of this talk about vmware, i just had to see for myself. i downloaded vmware player for 
windows xp and the free ubuntu image on vmware's website. this is the first time that i have tried 
such a thing. can i say "flippin' sweet!". with this i would not need to vnc into my suse 
workstation anymore, right?

since i just installed this, i take i will be able to install software too.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Adam Tauno Williams wrote the following on 3/28/2006 11:14 PM:
>> I am looking into utilizing VMWare for our developers whom run linux as a host operating system to be able to utilize VMWare 5.5
>> to have windows installed. We currently have two developers utilizing the 30 day workstation trial. One user is running Debian
>> Unstable/Testing hybrid and it works great. The other is running the same but on a 64-bit machine (although running in 32-bit
>> compatibility mode) and he has been able to get TinyFeather Linux to install in the VMWare Workstation, but Windows continually
>> gets stuck at different points during the installation.
>> Anyone here vouch for VMWare on debian as a host for Windows 2000, Windows XP ? Any known issues and known workarounds ? Any other
>> distro's that you run as a host that work great?
> 
> We have a Windows 2000 TSE that runs in VMware for ~100 users, the host
> is SuSe Pro 9.3.  I'm running Windows 2000 Pro and SuSe 10.1b8 in VMWare
> 5.5.0 build-18463 on SuSe 10.0 right now;  use it all day, it is
> completely stable.
> 
> Generally VMware doesn't care much about the LINUX host so long as the
> build is reasonably sane.
> 
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