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Re: VMWare VMWare hints and suggestions



On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 07:48:34AM +0000, Aharon Schkolnik wrote:
> I need one with Hebrew - will Hebrew enabled work ?

Yes, that's what I ran. AFAIK any OS that can run on a PC can run in
VMWare, the only question is how fast.
 
> Do these modules come with VMWare ? Are they installed in the
> installation procedure, or separately ?

They do come with VMWare and IIRC it also installs them automatically
(otherwise just do "insmod modulename.o"). 

> Thanks for the warning, and advice. Do I understand correctly that the 
> way to avoid this danger is to run VMWare under a non-privileged user ?

Now I remember the newer versions probably allow to you use a file as
your virtual hardisk, which is safer. But in addition to that, best
run it as a non-priveleged user, yeah. You can never know what bugs it
has.

> -- 
>   The day is short, and the work is great,     |   Aharon Schkolnik
>   and the laborers are lazy, and the reward    |   Aharon@health.gov.il
>   is great, and the Master of the house is     |   +972 2 670 6851
>   impatient. - Ethics Of The Fathers Ch. 2     |


	- Adi Stav 

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