Why use a virtual machine?

[Steven Vollom]

Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> nepal wrote:
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>> On Sunday 30 Nov 2008, Paul Rumelhart wrote:
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>>> The latest version of VMWare Player has support for
>>> DirectX 9.  It's slow, but it does work.  Your old Win 95
>>> games would probably work OK, but you're not going to be
>>> able to play Crysis on it.
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>> I've no idea what Crysis is so that is not a problem.
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>> The two games I want to play are AvP I and SegaRallye 2.
>> Both need decent 3d acceleration to be playable, but I may 
>> initially try wine which I haven't done in a long while, 
>> see how that goes first. To go the VM route I think I would 
>> need to up my RAM which is presently only 512mb.
>>
>> nepal.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis
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> Crysis is renowned for needing a hefty machine to play it.
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> If you have 512M of memory, you should definitely add more before trying 
> a VM.  I run my VM itself at 768M. 
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> I've had some good luck lately with Wine, but it's still hit and miss.  
> The biggest thing that will get in your way is if your games have copy 
> protection.  That doesn't work well with Wine, although the older copy 
> protection schemes might be farther along in Wine.  Wine has definitely 
> come a long way.  I have been downloading the Wine tarball from the 
> www.winehq.org and installing from source so that I can get a reasonably 
> recent copy because it is advancing so quickly.
>
> Paul
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I installed using Adept Package Manager; I have notice wine updates 
along with other updates automatically.  I am using Hardy, KDE3.5.10.

Steven