VMWARE

[Doogee]

My questions about VMware.


Is 128 mb ram way too little?
Can it emulate Mac hardware?
How many megs is it to download?

[voidmain]

1) yes
2) no
3) small

[Doogee]

so 128 is a nono, i dont think ill install windows i just want to try some other os's without having to partition and all that.

[voidmain]

You might be able to install and run VMware, and even install other OSs, but it's going to crawl. Even 256MB is too little if you ask me.

And VMware is only going to emulate the processor that you already have in your machine. If you have an Athlon, you will see an Althon procesor in your virtual machine. If you have a P4 you are going to see a P4 in your virtual machine (regarding your Mac question).

[Doogee]

oh okay so it makes a VM out of what youve already got?

[voidmain]

Yes and no. On the processor yes. On the rest of the stuff no. For instance, no matter what network card or video card you have VMware will expose a standard make/model to the guest OS (the OS you are going to install into a virtual machine). For instance, the OSes you install on your VMware will detect the exact same hardware (except for processor) that it detects on my system even though we have different brands of physical video and network cards.

This makes installing operating systems very easy. And if I wanted to I could transfer the disk image of an OS I installed on one physical computer, over to a completely different computer that is running VMware and boot it up, and all of the hardware will work because the OS sees it as the same hardware. It's really very cool.

[ November 16, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

its very cool apart from the fact that it would run crappy on my computer

[voidmain]

Yes, you need a healthy machine. If it's any consolation it runs great on my Athlon 1600 w/512MB RAM. Sometimes I wish I had more RAM though when I start running more than one server OS at the same time.

[Doogee]

lol ill wait till i get a new computer then.

[Doogee]

I think this is kindof on topic.

Is there anyway to run mac stuff like os 8 and os 9 on linux, with an emulator or something? im very interested in macs, but i just dont have to cash.

[voidmain]

Your mileage may vary:

http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html#Maconother

I can guarantee you that an emulator will be slower than VMware because emulators have to emulate the processor. VMware does not emulate the processor, instead your guest OS and apps have direct access to the processor, at the same time the Linux host OS does. However, because there is no x86 version of MacOS you can not run it under VMware. You could run the Darwin (MacOS X base OS) piece under VMware.

[ November 16, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

hmm whats a ROM chip? i dont wanna shove shit on my pc i just wanna be able to check out the OS and run a few apps.

[voidmain]

What's a ROM chip?
Search - I'm Feeling Lucky

 

[ November 16, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

the real question is can i run a mac emulator without one?

[voidmain]

You probably won't run much of anything without one. But that still isn't the right question.