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Old 07-23-2004, 05:24 AM   #7 (permalink)
Latch
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I've used it before, I love it. I've used it to:
- Run Linux (RH7.2) in Windows (2K)
- Run Windows (XP) in Linux (RH9 or FC1)
- At work we run AD Servers (W2K AS) on our Linux boxes (our own brand of Linux, although they'll soon be going to RedHat).
- Another place I worked at used it to run WinXP on a Win2K machine (don't ask hehe)

Besides the performance degredation you can get from running 2 OSs on the same system, it's not a bad system

There's alternatives.. and if you're keen.. check out bochs: The Open Source IA-32 Emulation Project (Home Page)... it's like vmware.. but Open Source (and more difficult to setup, beware!)

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Originally posted by mcovey
a lot of operating systems wont work in it :-(

syllable didnt work right, slax live CD doesnt work (with the one config i tried) and some others dont.

I want to try OpenBSD in it so I can figure out how to configure X and KDE on it.
I had a problem with syllable as well. Boot CD had some problems. Ah well, maybe in the future...

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Originally posted by Fallon
is there a list floating around that has what you can use on it? The price kinda scares the crap outta me cause i've never bought anything over 40 bucks.
When you set up a "virtual machine", it gives you a list of "guest OSs" that it can customise itself for (default amounts of mem/disk/etc). I'm not sure that's a definitive list, but it's a good start. Oh.. and definitely give it a free trial before shelling out $200 for it.
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