VirtualBox and Qemu networking

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 02:31:59PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Thanks for the comments about vmware. Always surprises me how the web sites 
> about vmware and similar programs/systems don't seem to provide the 
> "basic"(?) type of info I was looking for. Or, if they do provide it, you 
> have to really dig for it.

I think it is all there but takes some searching.

> I'm not sure if I could use vmware with the old version of Windows I"m 
> using or with the old computer (PII with 384Meg installed) I'm currently 
> using. The web site indicates that you can download a trial version so that 
> might be the thing to do at some point.

Well any version of windows will run inside vmware.  It does a very good
job emulating x86 hardware.  Well any x86 version of windows I guess.
If you have a new enough 64bit cpu and run 64bit linux, you can run a
64bit guest as well (none of the 64bit machines I have tried on yet were
new enough, although I think my wife's new tablet PC she got friday
probably can, although being a T5500 it doesn't have the virtualization
instructions, so who knows.  If she ever needs it I imagine a
replacement CPU could be installed).

> I will take a closer look at the workstation vs. server version. I have a 
> suspicion I would want the workstation version as I would want to use it on 
> my machine machine which means a few $$ to pay out.

Well I use vmware server on my machine in exactly the same way I used to
use vmware workstation and I haven't found anything missing in it yet
that vmware workstation provided.  Only the other way around.

> The other option I keep running across is Win4Lin. Having just read a page 
> comparing it to vmware, it sounds like vmware is more what I want. It might 
> let the programs see enough of the underlying hardware that I might be able 
> to run one of my high end CAD packages using it. As was pointed out in the 
> article, there is quite a difference in price between the two products.

win4lin only worked with win95/98 I thought, although I must admit I
never really looked at it.

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