Desktop relevance

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 03/26/2009 09:30 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
> The VMware Server 2.0 solution royally *sucks*.  I hate it!  I'm almost=
 ready
> to give up on it but don't want to because I like being able to copy/pa=
ste
> stuff between Linux and Microsoft apps running on a single display.  On=
 both
> my office and home desktops, I find that the apps under VMware Server r=
un 10x
> slower than native.  And if they talk to the Samba server, data corrupt=
ion
> occasionally happens.  It's unbelievably awful.  And because it happens=
 in two
> completely separate places, I have to (someday) come up with a better s=
olution
> that gives me my copy/paste and reasonably simple administration.
>
>  =20
Rich,
I tried VMWare server and it certainly did suck, but I then downloaded=20
Virtualbox and it worked fine on my laptop (Compaq NX6125 AMD Turion64 1 =

core). I have KVM on my desktop and it also works fine with both Vista=20
and XP but I have not really loaded it down, but that's a quad core.

--=20
Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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