VMWare again

[Boland, John]

i've run vmware server both ways, windows host/linux guests, linux
host/windows guests.
i've never seen a guest stop processing when the windows focus shifts
from vmware.
on a windows host, i set the .vmx process for each guest to run at below
normal priority.  my linux guests (code dev and test) continue to run
without problem.
i only install vmware server on windows if i have some
application/hardware that can't live inside vmware.  that being said,
the only apps i have problems with are outlook and some directx video
games.
i've had a difficult time trying to convince any windows mail
administrator (?) to enable pop access just so i don't have to use
snotlook...  

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From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf
Of John Abreau
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:26 AM
To: Jerry Feldman
Cc: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: VMWare again

I was helping one fo the guys at work with VMware on Friday; it was the
first time I tried Workstation on a Windows XP host; I normally run it
with a Linux host. Whenever he took the focus off of VMware to do other
things, we found that VMware just stopped; it didn't continue running in
the background the way it does on a Linux host.

Also, I gave VMware Server a try last week; I have a server for rsync
backups that's essentially idle during the workday, so I installed
vmware server there to try it out. Running it on a separate machine gave
it much better performance than running Workstation on my laptop, much
more so that I had expected.


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> For reasons that my wife must have Windows XP, I will be installing 
> Windows XP this evening. (Actually, someone else will install it for 
> me since I don't have a copy). I then plan to install either VMWare 
> Player of VMWare server and install Ubuntu as a guest OS initially, 
> and possibly Gentoo as another guest or to replace Ubuntu.
>
> Both Player and Server should work in this context, but my thought is 
> I'll get better performance out of Player. Any thoughts on this?
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