VirtualBox and Qemu networking

[Kevin Cozens]

Greetings, Lennart.

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.

> You can use an existing windows partition, and I have done so.  You have
> to install the right device drivers in a seperate profile within windows
> to do it though, and then select the hardware profile at boot that
> matches where you are running windows.

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.

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.

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.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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