VMWare Player in Multiverse?

[Oscar]

Xen seems to be the next hype in this area - there's a howto over at howtoforge, if you want to try it out.

http://www.howtoforge.org/perfect_xen_setup_debian_ubuntu

Oscar

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:06:59 +0330
Mehdi Hassanpour <mehdi.public at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you please tell me which version of VMWare you are using that has good
> speed and you have tested that on Breezy...
> I need a testing area, Qemu is very slow and I cannot work with that and
> I've heared VMWare is not a free software and we should register that to
> use... do you know any free other free solution ?
> 
> Thanks Friends
> Mehdi
> 
> 
> On 12/16/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> >
> > 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 outdated hardware for this purpose.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
> >
> >
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> >
> 
> 
> 
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