[vox] XP, VMWare and Redhat

[Z Kofler]

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>On Wednesday 31 December 2003 07:00 am, Z Kofler zkofler-at-hotmail.com 
>|lugod| wrote:
> > This is just a note for anyone that would like to run Windows XP as a
> > native OS and Linux as a virtual OS at the same time on the same PC.
>
>
> > I have installed VMWare and Redhat Linux in VMWare's virtual environment 
>on
> > my XP Dell Latitude D800 wide screen (15.4 inches - 1920 x 1200 pixels) 
>Lap
> > Top.  Everythings working great -- X windows, networking, etc.  My only
> > complain is that the virtual window provided by VMWare that properly 
>fits
> > the laptop is only 11 7/8 inches wide.  A pretty small window to see 
>well
> > w/ eyes over 40.  I'm running both RH Enterprise 3.0 and RH-8, although 
>I'm
> > planning to replace RH-8 w/ RH-7.3 (so that I have both the old and the 
>new
> > gnu tools and libraries).

>You say the virtual windows doesn't fill your screen... Is that at a
>console, or running X? If it's running X, then try changing resolutions.
>Are you going full screen with VMWare, or running it in a window? If
>you're going full screen, you should be able to set the guest resolution
>to 1920x1200 and it will fill your screen the same as your host OS. If
>you're in a window, try setting it to one setting below that
>(1600x1200?) and it will fill up most of your screen.... You did install
>the VMware tools in the guest OS right?

You are RIGHT!  I tried this before but because of the wide-screen format 
1920 x1200 only mode warning, I left it in 1280 x 1024 mode.  I just ran 
configuration for both RH-7.3 and WS 3.0 and am running full screen (all 
15.4 inches) at 1600 x 1200.  The fonts seem to be rendered just fine 
inspite of the warning message regarding a non-optimized screen usage mode.  
  Thanks, this will REALLY help.

> > For those who want to try this, here are some tips: 1. Go w/ a supported
> > Linux OS by VMWare (I tried RH Enterprise 2.1 and never could get X 
>windows
> > to work).  2. It requires a lot of memory; i.e., 512 MB (you're dividing 
>up
> > RAM between XP and Linux). 3. A 'large' high resolution monitor, so the
> > virtual window is a decent size.

>There's a reason they support specific versions of both guest and host
>OS. You may get others to work, but it's often not worth the effort.
>Also, depending on what you're doing, you don't necessarily need a lot
>of memory. I started using VMWare around 1.0 (I bought VMWare for Linux
>the first month it was out, and shortly thereafter was a beta-tester for
>VMWare for WindowsNT shortly before it's 1.0 release) This was running
>on both a laptop with 160MB and a desktop with 64MB. The only issue is
>you have to dedicate a certain portion of RAM to the guest OS. If you're
>not using a ton of memory in either your guest or host, you can get away
>with giving your guest only 32 or 64MB...especially if your guest is
>Linux, and you aren't doing anything too intensive with it. I haven't
>actually run WindowsXP, so I have no idea how much memory it requires,
>but back running VMWare on a 400MHz with 64MB split evenly between the
>host and guest I never had a problem.

Yes, supported versions are the WAY to go.  I never could get Redhat 
Enterprise WS 2.1 to work with X, however, even though WS 3.0 is 
unsupported, I did get it to work.  I had to play w/ the networking 
configuration files but that was the only headache.  I documented my fixes 
and sent it to VMWare Technical support so they're aware of the 'hoops' one 
has to jump through to get WS 3.0 to work.

John Kofler

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