Vmware is soo cool

[freakshow]

its easiest to start with a dry load of ubuntu and not use a moded distro like mint. mint is sweet
but you need to set it up on a dry ubuntu once or twice to see how it all correlates.

lol and then do i need some special drivers do i use vmware tools?

 

[DaMulta]

And to think a woman is the one that came up with it.


Not being sexest, it's just that it is rare for women to be into these things.

 

[Fitseries3]

lol and then do i need some special drivers do i use vmware tools?

nope. vmware tools will install once you get the client os running.

 

[t_ski]

Where approximately in IL? I used to work in an IL hospital. Though I have no idea if the hospital some awesome server set-up like that.

It's in the middle of a cornfield in East Central IL.

 

[the_professor]

VM is just the best thing to ever come out in a long long time.

I wish windows had that built into it.

But then Microsoft would be accepting the fact that other operating systems exist. j/k

yep thats what i was asking but i gave up on it lol but im about to install linux mint on vmware to try it out lol

If you hit a brick wall, ask.

 

[freakshow]

If you hit a brick wall, ask.

lol im always hitting brick walls

 

[t_ski]

Microsoft has their own version, but of course, you need to pay for it:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/

 

[exodusprime1337]

will someoen run 3dmark06 on they're xp virtual machine from vista, i want to see what the score is like.

 

[Fitseries3]

last i knew you cant run video drivers in the virtual machine.

 

[DaMulta]

last i knew you cant run video drivers in the virtual machine.

I've never played a game in VM, I just know that VM uses the drivers that are running in the o/s that you are on.

It's very odd, I don't really know how it works, because I have never went that deep into VM.

 

[Fitseries3]

i think it uses a generic svga driver.

 

[DaMulta]

I was asked to build a VM machine next month with the new Intel chips are in.

So 4 cores 8 threads, and I'm thinking about installing 12GB of ram into it.

She wants a work horse, and I think that would be a work horse for a VM box/on Vista 64.

 

[freakshow]

k i got ubuntu 8.10 install on vmware lol

 

[johnspack]

vmware actually does allow for beta 3d acceleration, I enabled it in a vista virtual machine, and it worked. Here's a clip from the manual:

and yes it seems to work for vista x64 as well, at least for me. Although pointless, if you want to game, no point through a virtual machine!

 

[suraswami]

Don't know if someone mentioned, the best part is VM stores all the OS installed as Files. You can copy those files for backup, copy to another directory and you have one more server (just need to rename), so you can keep on going. And it can do a snapshot within a OS and roll it back if needed.

The fun part is how network or the team who manages VM give us all the bullshit, oh that it takes hrs, you can't do this do that all the crap, when all it takes is to copy and delete if you don't want it.

Bad thing is it gives generic drivers so if you really need to test say a game, you really need a real machine with proper drivers.

Actually Vista runs good within W2K3 Ent. You can do SQL Cluster server also within VM. I created my server for that purpose but got carried away in other projects, need to get my ass into working on that project.

 

[t_ski]

Don't know if someone mentioned, the best part is VM stores all the OS installed as Files. You can copy those files for backup, copy to another directory and you have one more server (just need to rename), so you can keep on going. And it can do a snapshot within a OS and roll it back if needed.

A friend and I did this, and we ended up having the same IP and MAC. Kinda messed up the testing we were doing at the time.

 

[johnspack]

Virtual machines rock, I use them for servers ect, can always have a backup of a complete system ready to go in minutes!

 

[suraswami]

A friend and I did this, and we ended up having the same IP and MAC. Kinda messed up the testing we were doing at the time.

You didn't change the IP?

 

[t_ski]

We did realize this until we were about half way through

 

[Zenith]

I am running Windows 98SE in Vmware. Nice piece of software.

 

[Wile E]

vmware actually does allow for beta 3d acceleration, I enabled it in a vista virtual machine, and it worked. Here's a clip from the manual:
http://img.techpowerup.org/081102/vmwareaccl.jpg
and yes it seems to work for vista x64 as well, at least for me. Although pointless, if you want to game, no point through a virtual machine!

Thanks. i never realized that, this is gonna come in handy. Is there an upper vram limit? Think I could give 512MB, since I have a 1GB card?

 

[ShadowFold]

Am I doin it right? And will F@H work faster in Ubuntu?

 

[DaMulta]

Hey I got a good one guys/

Say you have a X-Fi card and you wanted to play a XP game. Could you run VM and play that game with EAX, because you are running inside XP?

 

[vega22]

i use vmware to maximise my production f@h.

i posted a link in the f@h thread a while back to a guide i did for the team i was in at that time.

i went from 1800 ppd to 3800 ppd at the same speeds on my duo.


edit

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=914256&postcount=1917

 

[servermonkey]

I work at a hospital where we are using VMware ESX. We have about 400 thin clients using RDP to pull VMs running off of 12 servers, and the VMs are stored on about 4TB of SAN (we have 12TB devoted to the total project).

sweet!