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196585 2003-12-03 22:13:00 It's in the early stages of development so won't be all that much of a representation of what the final will end up like. Also running it under VMWare is not going to be the best way to run it in the first place. -=JM=- (16)
196586 2003-12-03 22:52:00 And why not? Lemme tell you a story....

I was running Redhat 9 as a base OS
Under VMWare I had something like:
Mandrake 9.0
Redhat 8
Windows 98
Windows 2K
Windows XP

Redhat 9 was downloadng and I was browsing with and stuff
(Now its been a while so I hope I can remember this right):
Mandrake was playing music
Redhat 8 I cant remember for the life of me what it was doing....
Win98 was defragging a HDD which didnt really exist coz it was a Virtual Disk
Win2K was encoding an MP3
WinXP was playing DIvX

...And I cant remember what I had Redhat 8 doing.... But my PC was handling it fine.. Sure CPU Usage was at max, but I max out my CPU about 20-30 times a day (No exaggeration) compiling apps and the likes.

Why can Longhorn not run under VMWare with Slackware 9.1 as a host then?
Chilling_Silently (228)
196587 2003-12-03 23:38:00 VMWare won't it optimised to run it for a start. How much RAM did you have in your system? Surely it was running a tad low with all those going. -=JM=- (16)
196588 2003-12-04 00:28:00 512MB
It seemed to be doing fine though.. Playing MP3's.. DivX.. Defragging a HDD which doesnt really exist (:D)

It could hold up fine with 5 OS's, so why cant it do just one "newer" one?

And yes, as I said the CPU was MAXED out... but it still worked... I'd say it was the DivX playing which was killing it coz you _need_ a 500Mhz to play the video I was playing (Not movie.. Music video...).

YMMV obviously.... but still...
Chilling_Silently (228)
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