Using Cakewalk w/ VMWare for Linux?

thal needs help with the following issue: "I just installed the VMWare for Linux demo on my Pentium II 233 with 64 Megs of RAM to make a virtual machine for my Win95 partition. What I'd like to do with it is use the Cakewalk Win95 multitrack music recorder inside of the virtual machine so I don't have to reboot. I know that I'll have to upgrade my processor and memory to do this well, but I want to know for sure it will work well before I put down the cash. With my current setup, giving Windows 32 Megs of RAM, I can't even get an .MP3 file to play without sounding a little bit choppy. Is this an inherent problem with VMWare's interaction with the audio hardware, or is this something I can fix by throwing money at it? Would a Pentium II 450 with 128 RAM suffice? Or should I just scrap the VMWare thing and buy a simple dedicated machine for this task? "