[PLUG] Crossover Linux slow...

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

m0gely wrote:
> someone wrote:
> 
>> Vmware player does better so far, as much as I hate being limited to a
>> small window in the center of the screen.
> 
> VMware under Windows as the host will run guest OS's full screen.  Does
> it not under Linux?

I've used both VMware Server and VMware Workstation on a (Gentoo) Linux
host system and they both do full screen just fine.
> 
>> I should be 10 times faster than the system this software was written
>> for.
>> I have 512 megs of ram.
> 
> 512MB is baseline at the most. 1GB is the minimum on most computers
> these days and 2GB is the new 1GB.  If you're running VM's then you are
> going to want more than 512MB.  Let the guest OS breath a little.

If the Host has only 512 MB, you're going to have problems with more
than one guest or one guest over about 128 MB.

>> Crossover Linux is a lot cheaper than vmware workstation if I can get
>> it to
>> work better...
> 
> VMware server is cheaper than both.

I've forgotten ... the original goal was to get a game running, right?
P3 desktops are dirt cheap these days -- pick one up, load Windows 2000
Professional on it and use a *real* machine.