[ale] VmWare question...

Chris Woodruff cwoodruff at openpenguin.com
Mon Feb 18 10:05:17 EST 2002


>From what I understand they did away with the educational price.  At

this time you can upgrade for $99 but if you buy a full version you have
to pay the $299.  At least I did a few months ago when I bought it.

Chris Woodruff

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 09:56, Josh Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 09:41, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Last I heard VMware costs $299
> Educational and hobby licenses are only $99. That makes the VMWare
> option a little more palletable.
> 
> 
> > Go to ginstar and buy a real PC for $299.  Add a few dollars more for a 
> > Belkin 2 port KVM.  You are done.  I do not use VMware.  I have spare 
> > PC's
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 07:56, Bob Evans wrote:
> > > > Jeb
> > > > 
> > > > You've got 2 ways to go with VMWare:
> > > > 
> > > > 1. Run it under Linux. This allows you to set up
> > > > Windows sessions within
> > > > VMWare.
> > > > 
> > > > 2. Run it under Windows(NT, 2000, or XP). Then you can
> > > > have Linux running as
> > > > a "guest" to Windows.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know of any Windows applications that can't
> > > > run on scheme number 1,
> > > > with the possible exception of some games.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone else know of VMWare limitations regarding
> > > > Windows applications?
> > > 
> > > I don't think DirectX games or anything that requires the lastest 
> > video
> > > cards and stuff will work. I've yet to get Deltaforce Landwarrior
> > > running on it. Pretty much any office or productivity app seems  to
> > > work, albiet a little slowly. You will get okay performance if you 
> > use a
> > > virtual disk. If you can use a physical partition for windows, you
> > > should get performance near native speeds.
> > > 
> > > Josh
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > -Bob
> > > > 
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