7 Sep
2006
7 Sep
'06
11:32 a.m.
Is anyone here using Vmware?
My Win2k machine is getting a bit flaky so I'm looking at buying some new hardware (system unit only probably) and setting it up as a Linux box with Win2k running in Vmware. This would replace my existing two machines running Slackware Linux and Win2k.
I know there are some issues with running Vmware on a Slackware Linux box but these seem fairly easy to overcome, they are basically only to do with the startup scrips (BSD versus SysV).
Does anyone here have any experience of doing this? In particular how good is the hardware support for Win2k in VMware, I want to be able to use a scanner from Win2k in particular.
I suppose I ought to ask about good hardware too but I'll make that another thread.
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Chris Green (chris@halon.org.uk)