WDef
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Posted: Nov. 10 2005,07:36 |
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Thanks, this is excellent :=) QEMU was unusable on my p3 - it just locked the machine up. But dsl on VMPlayer on this machine is altogether usable. Posting from there now.
I doubled the default ram allocation (256MB) in the VmPlayer settings and it seems better again. Not sure if enabling dma and booting toram makes any difference, but seems to proceed as for a normal boot - I think it enables dma on the virtual drive that load the iso. Performance is ok Not as lightning fast as a dma toram boot from livecd on the same pc, but ok.
Moving files between host and guest OSs is easy since you can mount a usb stick in either OS (not at the same time) after toggling a button on vmplayer's toolbar (or can ftp/ssh between systems as for qemu).
As handy as qemu is (don't have to install on the host), it's just *not* in the race compared to this.
In the vmware forums I read that they hope people will distribute more virtual machines for use on vmplayer. Here is one they can use out of the box, just add that .vmx file. However, they also labor under the delusion that you have to buy their VMWare Workstation $ product to make a virtual machine ....
Red Hat and Suse etc have virtual machines downloadable from the vmware site. The "Browser Appliance" virtual machine - for surfing the net - is built from ubuntu and firefox and is a 210MB download! I suppose dsl run this way would outperform these. Another way to win converts to dsl ....?
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