Dual monitors, and VMware

[Matt Graham]

That's very impressive.  I bet you save plenty on hardware with that
sytem..despite the arsenal of hardware you have in there.

So...for you VMWare folks, here is a question.  I am running linux at home,
but at the office we have windows. My dell 5000e laptop is running windows
xp.  I want to get a vmware installation of RedHat 8 going, but whenever I
install, it can't find any support for my video card.  ATI Mobility 16mb.

If I install Mandrake 9, it seems to work just fine.  But, since I'm runing
RH8 at home, I wanted to get that going here.

Has anyone done this before?  Seen this problem?

Thanks,
Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Decker" <dustind at moon-lite.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Dual monitors, and VMware

> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, MdG wrote:
>
> > Intresting stuff...dual monitors and VMWare.  Hows the performance for
you
> > guys in VM?  What apps are you running in Windows under VM?
>
> I'm half ashamed to tell all what I do with VMWare, but then again most
> everyone knows I have to support a lot of that "Other" OS anyway so...
>
> I've found that if you throw enough hardware at VMWare, something that it
> does quite well is host multiple instances of an OS for testing purposes.
> The machine I'm running it on at work has a pair of P4 Xeon CPU's at
> 2.5GHz, 4GB of RAM, and 6 Atlas 10K2 Ultra160 SCSI drives on an Adaptec
> 5400S RAID controller.
>
> Again - all apologies as I speak of Windows...  The host OS is WinXP Pro,
> and I run two instances of Win2K server (both as Active Directory domain
> controllers), two Win2K Pro installations, two WinXP Pro installations,
> and a single WInNT 4.0 Workstation simultaneously.  Prior to the 4GB of
> RAM, it was sluggish... but now it runs like a champ.
>
> What I like most about it is how easy it is to "roll back" to pre-test
> conditions.  VMWare stores the filesystem for each guest OS in a single
> series of files within a folder.  I've got a default "fresh install" of
> each OS stored away on CD - each time I need to roll back I kill the guest
> session, delete the contents of the folder, and restore from CD.  It makes
> coming back to a known state no-brainer enough that I can allow my
> programmers (no offense to those types, but this _is_ windows ya know) to
> make use of the system and not worry about them hosing it to pieces.
>
> VMWare might not be cheap - and you have to throw it a good bone on
> hardware too... but it's a lot cheaper for me than coming up with tons
> more hardware, and the real estate to house them.  As for the desktop
> issues, I can run each guest OS full screen, and switch between them by
> keystroke.  Lovely stuff...
>
> Dustin
>
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