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« on: January 01, 2006, 07:42:38 PM »
Quoted from the tutorial site:

VMware Workstation has always been (and still is) a commercial product, and you have to pay a fairly large sum to get your hands on it, but VMware have now released a free application dubbed “VMware Player”, which can run virtual machines produced by VMware and a few other companies. Yet, with some simple hacks, we can use VMware Player to run any x86 Operating System we like.

http://linux.wolphination.com/?p=18

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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2006, 12:43:23 AM »
I noticed that VirtualPC is a bit sluggish. Is VMWare the same way?
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2006, 04:32:13 PM »
its very memory intensive you need at least 1GB or ram if you're using windows as your Host OS to get any real performance.
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2006, 11:04:00 PM »
Something I've done in the past is create my virtual machines using Microsoft's free Virtual Server R2 (BTW - VirtualPC is also free now) and then run them using VMware Player for better performance. Plus, this way it's all free!

Be cautious. If you do this (run a MS created VM in VMware), then don't keep switching back and forth between VMWare Player and MS VServer. After creation, pick one player and stick with it. I found conflicts with networking when I bounced back and forth.

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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2006, 01:34:48 PM »
I never saw sluggish even before I went from 512 MB  to 1 GB RAM.
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2006, 08:56:43 PM »
what OS was the VM and how much memory did you give it?
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2006, 09:18:30 PM »
I was running Windows XP as the host on a laptop with 1GB of RAM. I left 512 for the host, 256 for an XP VM and 256 for BackTrack ISO.

Maybe it's me, but it seemed to run better using VMware player.

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