interacting with wondows on a new laptop//endnote functionality

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Matt Price wrote:

> virtual machine inside linux, but this may be very processor-intensive,

Hi Matt.  My wife runs Ubuntu on the desktop with MS-Windows running under 
VMWare.  A pretty common solution really.  The laptop has a dual core 
T2300 and 2GB of ram.  The VMWare session get a 256MB.  She has no 
performance problems at all.

> and also, i htink it's hard to suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram from
> the host os when virtual os's are running.   I know that the ubuntu

Yes this has proven to be something of a drag.  When she ran a full VMWare 
workstation (5.5) she could manually suspend the VM.  Now she is using the 
player (I may reinstall the Workstation) and normally shutsdown MS-Windows 
before suspending.  MS-Windows isn't open so often that this has been a 
big issue.

A change to Xen is being evaluated.

Cheers,

Rob

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