[LUAU] vmware users

[bbraun at sparcy.synack.net]

On Friday, Mar 1999 at 9:28:50 calzonie at hawaii.rr.com wrote: 
 | To anyone running (or read extensively) on vmware.
 | 
 | Who actually owns the hardware? How is the hardware shared?  For instance, h
 > ow
 | would you enable windows networking in the virtual machine?

 The vm has it's own IP.  It comes with a dhcp client.

 | Do the virtual machines run on Linux's native filesystem?

 They want to create a file that will be the virtual disk, much like
 SoftWindows if you've played with that at all.  I've been wanting to
 try to change this, but don't have time...

 | Anyone try playing a high-end game on a virtual machine like nascar racing o
 > r
 | quake?

 Nope, I only run it on a Libretto 50 (32mb ram, P75 overclocked to 100),
 and it is way too slow to try to run games like that.

 | fyi, I just read a box with multiple processors running vmware will give a p
 > rocessor
 | to each virtual machine, that's cool.

 Well, vmware is a normal process, so the scheduler will do its best to
 put them each on their own processor.  vmware didn't have to do anything
 with that.

 Disclaimer:
 This is all from a quick look at it.  I may be wrong on some of the
 above points, but to the best of my knowledge they are correct.

 Rob
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