I'm successfully running Debian stable (sarge) under VMware 4.5. Host system: WinXP SP2, 3.2Ghz CPU, 1G RAM. I selected the IDE drive option when creating the VMware disk image and allocated 384M RAM to the virtual machine. I'm using the latest stock 2.4.27-686 kernel for Debian. I've had a few segfaults and total lockups of the virtual machine, but I think they are sound related. I use xmms and mpg123 to play mp3's on Debian. It seems to work fine unless I want to skip to another song or start/stop songs frequently. Otherwise I'm happy with the performance. Browsing the web using Mozilla under Linux (running under VMware) seems faster than IE on the native XP install. I'm stuck with WinXP on my system at work and Linux under VMware is better than no Linux at all. Now I run Outlook and VMware natively and everything else I do from within the virtual Linux system. Life is good again. :) You definitely want to install the vmware-tools after you've installed your virutal OS. It has a nice feature that lets you mount a directory from your native OS under the virtual machine for file sharing. I originally tried bochs [1]. While bochs worked, the virtual machine ran much slower than VMware. The bochs binary for Window also has a timing issue where the clock on the virutual machine runs incredibly fast. It's literally days ahead just minutes after booting. This made the system useless if you want to use make(1), cron, or any other applications that depend on the system clock. There is a compile option that supposedly fixes this but I didn't have the time or bandwidth to rebuild bochs under WinXP. bochs is still pretty amazing and definitely worth a look. [1] http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Scot On 10/19/05, Sean Waite <swaite at sbn-services.com> wrote: > Just today I had to wipe out an installation I had done of Fedora Core 4 on > VMWare 5. I have never been able to get Fedora properly installed on a > VMware > machine except for one instance. The installation on my laptop works just > fine. > Otherwise the installations on other machine tend to break down. Foremost > problems I have are kernal panic errors. > > If it does manage to load it is abnormaly slow to the point it is unusable. > All > installations were on various Windows OSes. Just today when I tried to load > the > VM machine it sucked up all my CPU for a long time. When I eventually looked > at > the screen it had just displayed the interactive service menu option. I do > have > VMWare running on Suse and am considering installing Fedora this weekend > there > to just see what happens, although I do not believe there should be much of > a > difference between the Linux version and the Windows. > > Strange thing Fedora having problems on VMware. I use VM for installing and > running a multitude of different OSes, from Solaris to NT 4. Never once have > I > ever encountered a serious problem with an OS. The most common problem I > have is > if I have the hard drive as a SCSI, a lot of Linux distribs tend to not > like > that, so I use the IDE drive option. > > If you do find a tip or tweak we can use please let us know, I would really > like > to get Fedora going on this one certain pc. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Schumacher <wnpauls2 at yahoo.com> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:37:28 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: [tclug-list] vmware question > > > Has anyone used vmware workstation 5 (windows version) > > with Fedora Core 4? > > > > Any comments, opinions, help, etc will be appreciated. > > > > thanks, > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > > Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. > > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >