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VMWare 3.0 beta report for Linux-IL readers
- To: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: VMWare 3.0 beta report for Linux-IL readers
- From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)kde.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:16:50 +0300
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- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
Hi people,
Since yours trully still doesn't have a job, so I'm playing a bit with some
hardware I got here and with some new Linux apps - so if you want - here are
2 good news:
VMWare 3.0 beta is out (and can be obtained from the VMWare web site)..
I have installed Windows XP as a guest on my machine (AMD 800Mhz, 320MB RAM,
Matrox G400, XFree 4.0.3, kernel 2.4.8-ac2)..
Does it worth the upgrade? yes. BUT - I've seen some upgrade problems moving
from VMWare 2.0 to 3.0 - so the best option will be to backup your virtual
hard disk and upgrade, or install your guest OS from scratch (I tried the
upgrade on Windows ME - and once I enabled the USB - it recognized tons of
new hardware - and crashed my WinME guest)..
So - whats new? lets see..
First - it's WAY faster then 2.0 - I'll give it around 50-80% speed increase.
I installed XP as a guest because XP is very heavy OS. VMWare wasn't excited,
and the speed impression was really good.
Be careful - there is a new VMWare tools for the 3.0 which I found not
backward compatible with 2.0.
Graphis - now you can either set your guess OS to run in a specific bit
planes (bpp) or work as usual like 2.0. It's also knows to switch resolution
when you change the resolution.
Sound - sorry, still the same problems as 2.0 - lets hope they'll fix it on
the next beta
CD-ROM - now it's supporting CD-R/CD-RW (I didn't test it yet), as well as CD
images (like ISO), and coming soon on the next beta - DVD-ROM and DVD+RW. I
haven't played with it much yet.
USB - VMWare 3.0 now supports USB out of the box on the Guest OS - ONLY if
your host OS doesn't have modules loaded for it - so only 1 can use it -
either Guest or Host. WebCams are not supported yet. I tried USB palm crade
and it worked. Remember - you do need the windows drivers if you want to use
it in Windows as a guest.
In order to use USB you should have "/proc" filesystem compiled in the
kernel, and usbdevfs as module. You should also have a line like this in
/etc/modules.conf
# USB Stuff
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
and in /etc/fstab
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
After you have this - you can select from the "Devices" menu in the VMWare
menu which USB devices your guest OS should "see" - up to 2 USB devices..
I/O system - much much faster. Also virtual hard drive images can be up to
128GB for IDE drives, and 256GB for SCSI devices.
Network: Adapters - up to 8 can be assigned, and there is built in NAT
functionality.
And last - mouse movement is MUCH smoother then before, and if you're guest
is running in a window - you can now press CTRL ALT to get your
mouse/keyboard back.
Upgrade pricing - unknown yet.
Hope this helps to some people here..
--
Hetz Ben Hamo
hetz@kde.org
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