The experience I have with VMware, is that it needs
MUCHO amount of ram. I tried it once on a 350mhz w/
128 mb (winXP + Mandrake 9). But like you said, its
dog slow. I wouldnt even think about using less than
512. I have a 1ghz duron with 704 mb and it runs
fairly decent (win2k + RH 8). From everything i've
read, and seen, ram is the key.

Kurt

--- kclug@trisk.net wrote:
> i've been playing around with VMWare lately, running
> redhat under windows
> 2k. i'm thinking about trying virtual pc, does
> anyone have any experience
> with things like this? mostly i'm wondering about
> speed - VMWare is dog
> slow, i have a duron 1200 with 384 megs of ram (256
> devoted to VMWare)...
> i was looking for a site with benchmarks earlier but
> couldn't find
> anything that really compared the two. also, how
> well does VMWare run
> windows under linux? i think i remember reading
> somewhere that it doesn't
> do directx emulation?
> 
> trisk
> 
> 
> 
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