Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Mon 23rd Jun 2003 02:31 UTC
If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.
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I've got a dual-boot machine (XP and Gentoo) but I do a lot of VB & VC development and that means Windows is essential.
However, I bought VMWare 4.0 last week and I'm highly impressed. I've set up a 5gb Fat32 partition for 'My Documents' which I share between XP and VMWare, so it's pretty transparent to me no matter which OS I boot. I put Win 98 into VMWare, but a quick test of XP shows that it works much better (the UI is faster, more responsive etc. I can tell W98 is running under something but XP looks like it's native)
I have a P4, 2.2ghz with 1gb of ram. Don't torture yourself trying to run this software on a P450 with 128 or whatever. If development pays your bills then a fast machine is a tool of the trade.
PS Bochs on the same machine ran about as fast as a dead snail. Took me 4-6 hours to install Win98 straight off CD.
Cheers
Simon