From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 10:51: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D2D37B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.wiliweld.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA06730; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:50:53 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:47:59 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Doug Young Cc: Subject: Re: 2 Operating Systems on one computer (I do) In-Reply-To: <07d001c0ac3c$ffe9c6e0$817e03cb@apana.org.au> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Wed, 14 Mar 2001 it looks like Doug Young composed: dougy->I've been wondering just how practical that VMWare is .... particularly dougy->running Windows in some breed of unix. I have a number of boxes that run dougy->Win98 / W2K because of certain accounting software etc ..... looked at dougy->several emulators but haven't been particularly impressed dougy->with the somewhat patchy application support. Now I understand that VMWare dougy->is a bit of a resource hog, but thats not an insurmountable problem with the dougy->price of CPUs / RAM as low as it is today. dougy-> ............ yes, I have found that one needs a full set of ram for the additional OS, "128 for you, and 128 for me....." at a minimum. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message