Re: [SLUG] Starting over

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 13:58:29 EDT


On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On 7/19/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Doug Koobs wrote:
> >
> > > > I have to have XP on the thing (corporate req, and have some software that
> > > > I have to use under it).
> > > >
> > > > I am of course going to put Linux on it, so what I need is to get some input
> > > > as to the best proceedure to follow in order to put the two os's on the
> > > > machine. I plan on setting up the 80G disk as follows:
> > >
> > > Chuck,
> > >
> > > Would you be open to running a virtual Windows machine as a "guest" OS using Qemu?
> > > You'll need to have plenty of RAM, and performance won't be the same as a native
> > > install of Windows. But you won't have to shut down Linux to go into Windows. If
> > > this sounds like it may work for you, check out http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> > >
> > > Or, if you want a commercial package, check out win4lin Pro at http://www.win4lin.com/.
> > >
> > > I had lots of fun playing around with Qemu on my laptop, with 512MB memory and a
> > > 1Ghz processor, but never got the performance to be usable...
> >
> > An older version of VMware is fine on my machine, although the sound sucks.
> > W2K runs in a virtual machine with 524M RAM, and the host machine has a 2GHz
> > Athlon. I got it at the student rate of $100 or so.
>
> This is a 2.2Ghz Celeron, I have 512M of ram, and I am supposed to get a 80G HD
> to replace the old 40G. I tried running the mapping stuff under wine,
> it ran but it was
> slow, perhaps shall have to try VMware and see how it does. First will
> need to get
> some more RAM, machine will take up to 1G.

Yeah, VMware with XP will suck in 256M (XP will swap a lot), and anything
will suck when only leaving 256M for Linux (Linux will swap a lot).

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