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Re: Finally: Hebrew under VMware!



> I have enough space on my disk for both Linux, Windows (hopefully)
> and Solaris x86 (proper to a Sun employee, though Linux is used most

Wow!  The same combination (Linux+Win+Solaris) that I'm going to
use under MY laptop (currently, I have separate disks for Win95
and for Solaris, while Linux is installed on another machine, but
VMware solves the current limitations).

> of the time).  Each OS is given 2Gb.  I also have 128Mb RAM.
> I just wander whether:
> 
> 1. Win2000 will fit in 2Gb as a stand-alone partition and still
>    have space for the MS C++ workshop and such.

I don't have any idea, especially because I don't know the
development environments of Win32.

> 2. Win2000 will support the particular Toshiba hardware (my laptop
>    came with extra toshiba-specific software to handle it).

This will not be a problem at all. You *DON'T* run under Toshiba,
but under VMware, with a specific NIC, a specific sound card, a
specific video, etc. These hardware devices were chosen carefully
so any operating system would support them. Of course, it has two
drawbacks, but youhave them with any other guest OS too:

1. Any hardware which is not supported by the host OS (currently
   only Linux), cannot be supported by any guest.
2. Any hardware which is not supported by VMware (e.g. CDRW), can
   not be supported by any guest.

> 3. It will work well with 128Mb RAM.

Again, the point is that ONCE you have enough memory for any of
these guest OSes, NT will outperform Win98. The problem was if
you had less memory (let's assume 80MB), which is enough for Win98
but not for NT.

> The CPU is 366 Pentium II, more than enough as far as I heard
> and seen so far.

The CPU *SHOULD NOT* be a reason to prefer a liter OS (Win98?)
over NT; If NT runs faster under VMware, then it is better than
Win98 even with VERY slow processors, like 133MHz. It may run very
slow, but Win98 will be even slower.

> You are right that VMware comes with a closed set of "hardware
> environment", but I'll have to be able to boot Windows without VMware
> as well.

Ough... This may make your life much harder. First of all, it
prevents you from using a virtual disk which is a simple file of
the host. It means that you will suffer bad performance, and that
you will not have access to some cool features of the virtual
disk, like undoable disk.
But it is even worse: The drivers which are used by the same OS,
are different under VMware and as a stand-alone system. I am even
not sure that it is possible.

There is another option: To install Windows twice, and to put all
your files / documents / installed-software / whatever, under a
shared filesystem / partition / virtual disk / whatever.

-- 
Eli Marmor

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