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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: VMware/OT
From:       Vic <ntr () kscable ! com>
Date:       2000-04-21 1:01:44
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System for $300 US, I just can't see paying the price they were asking. 
> 
> Bill Suetholz


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, wsuetholz@centonline.com wrote:
> What you need to do is set up another hardware configuration under windows.
> Normally the system uses a config called "Default", but you can add new
> configurations.  I think that the VMWare web site had notes on how to do
> this.  That way you would have one configuration that would be used when 
> running native, and a different configuration for running emulated.
> 
> Don't ask me for any more details than that, since I haven't really played
> with it much.  Too many things to do, to little time..  
> 
> I did at one time try VMWare on my P166, but when you can buy a Celeron 366
> System for $300 US, I just can't see paying the price they were asking. 
> 
> Bill Suetholz
> 
> On 09-Apr-00 M. Neidorff wrote:
> > At 06:39 PM 04/07/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >>Because VMWare is a Virtual Machine.  It doesn't let windows directly access
> >>your hardware.  It creates 'virtual devices' - you notice that it's not your
> >>normal BIOS when it boots, right?  That's because it ISN'T.  The same for all
> >>of your hardware inside the virtual machine - it's a 'virtual' floppy drive,
> >>CD-ROM drive, IDE controller, etc.
> > 
> > Quite true.
> > 
> >>That's why they say you should reinstall your guest OS's in their own
> >>partitions/disk files.
> > 
> > But they also say that it is possible to run with an existing 
> > installation.  Now there is the problem.
> > 
> >>If you had understood how VMWare really worked, you might not have had this
> >>problem - just goes to show you should ALWAYS RTFM.
> > 
> > 
> > Mark
> 
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