[oclug] OT: Camelot Content

b stephen harding dk983 at ncf.ca
Mon Mar 18 22:10:46 EST 2002


On March 18, 2002 09:04 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 18 March 2002 20:20, you wrote:
> > You don't have to boot back and forth.  Use VMware, I'm in a windows shop
> > and my box runs SuSE Linux 7.3 Pro.  I have to have access to two windows
> > programs to do my job.  VMware is a virtual machine and you can install
> > most operation systems in it.
>
> How much of a performance hit do you take?

I've noticed very little to none.  Like any office I don't do any really 
demanding stuff, unlike what one might do at home or in a development 
environment.  My home box is a 1.333/266 Athlon with 512DDR 2600 Ram and 
Windows XP runs faster under VMware than it does natively on any box at work.

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b stephen harding

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