VMWare Player in Multiverse?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 21:11 +0100, Max Andersen wrote:
> leon wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I haven't used qemu scared of its speed. VMware is
> > already very slow and I read comment somewhere that qemu is slower even
> > with accelerator.
> > 
> 
> Vmware (the version I use), is very fast. I run my XP in my vmware on 
> ubuntu, and it's faster than my other XP in boot and operation.
> 
> So, sayingt vmware is slow, must mean you have a very old version or 
> outdated hardware for this purpose.

Hmmm, I can only agree. I run VMware in Breezy with a 4 year old
motherboard, modest 1.5GHz CPU with 768 of RAM, and I was amazed to see
that Windows XP runs actually better as a guest than as a host on the
same machine, a technical wonder. However, strangely, runnning Dapper in
VMware is very sluggish to say the least. Good enough for the purpose
(testing it and reporting bugs), but I couldn't use it for production
work if I needed to.

So if WinXP is fast as a host but slow in VMWare, I think it's probably
lack of RAM. I think 512MB is a minimum to be really comfortable a
modern Desktop like Gnome and big apps. But I am even happier now I
upgraded to 768. The more RAM the better :-)


--
Vince