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  1. this was the reporter who interviewed me by cce · · Score: 1 · on WSJ Says Linux Lags
    sad thing is that this was the same reporter that interviewed me for an article about vmware because of my vmware screenshot site.

    he seemed like a pretty nice guy over the phone; a little confused, but he joked around and stuff with me. he wasn't FUD-controlled or anything -- just uneducated. (i mean, he called ME -- that's as good a sign as any ...)

  2. EVERYTHING WORKS: aol, quake, MSIE, cuteftp, etc. by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release

    okay, i just got *everything* working. i'm using both /dev/hda AND a virtual HD and it's just as fast as if i were running win95 w/out vmware. i've run quake, aol, ms IE, cuteftp, pagemaker 6.5, photoshop 5.0, and a host of other programs and they all work wonderfully. check out my screenshots.

  3. FASTEST/BEST: using BOTH a virtual hd & /dev/hda? by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release
    i think i figured out the best setup for vmware. i installed win95 to a vmware "virtual hard drive" this morning, so i set the virtual hd as my primary master, and set /dev/hda (or the safe-rawdisked version, if you wish) to primary slave, and wallah! the speed of having a local copy of windows plus all my apps. i guess that my registry's fucked, however ... i bet i can fix that though.


    i've still got all those crazy vmware screenshots here. today i served up 5.9 gigs because of a single link from slashdot this morning -- scary. i guess i'll probably have hit 6 when i wake up.

  4. i've served 4.7gigs of vmware screenshots today by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release
    ...because of you guys. i had no idea what being "slashdotted" was like. wow...


    oh, and my vmware screenshots are still being served at here. anyone else got vmware working well? i'm curious to know, i'll put shots up on my ever-growing site.

  5. i've served 4.7gigs of vmware screenshots today by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release
    ...because of you guys. i had no idea what being "slashdotted" was like. wow...


    oh, and my vmware screenshots are still being served at here. anyone else got vmware working well? i'm curious to know, i'll put shots up on my ever-growing site.

  6. what, vmware_tools.exe? by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release

    i've got it here.

  7. license key / performance by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release
    a few things: vmware doesn't run off of your actual windows partition, it makes a "virtual disk drive" (basically a really big file called win95.dsk or something) for you. so i had to reinstall win95. that's what a bunch of those screenshots are from.


    it runs pretty nicely, too. i've got a p2/350 and most things run pretty fast, but in full-screen mode (which is WAAY freakier than the screenshots) it a] scares me because i can't even tell i'm in linux, and b] seems to run eerily well. in the config program, there's a "memory slider" that allows you to specify how much memory you want the virtual machine to think it has (and thus still from your host OS's cpu/mem). i haven't spent the time to install anything big, so i haven't played quake or whatever on it yet.


    i also still haven't moved up to the X server they want me to use, or even to the latest X version (i know, i'm lazy) -- vmware tells me that if i get it it'll use DGA better for better full-screen mode. i was too busy playing "solitaire."


    regarding the license key: i put it up on my blooming vmware site for now ... but please don't use this as your permanent license key! you can get one for free from vmware.com once it comes back up! this is just for impatient people like me!


    hope this all helps.

  8. i installed it by cce · · Score: 1 · on VMWare Beta Release

    i got it at around 1am this morning, after it was just released. i thought i reported it here pretty early, too. whatever. anyhow, it's working and it's REALLY SCARY. check out my screenshots here. hell, i'll even put the original archives i downloaded off of vmware.com (before it went down and all) up there, too. i think you might need a license key, though, too -- that was available free at their site before it went down. oh well.