RTFM VMWare question

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Thanks Derek,
I think you answered my question. I certainly would not consider running 
VMWare with NT as the host. 
Actually, I'm not sure I would want to run VMWare at home, since I boot 
into Windows very infrequently. But, for my teaching, if I need to run a M$ 
product that does not run under WINE, VMWare solves the problem to some 
extent. 

On 22 Jul 2002 at 16:08, Derek Atkins wrote:

> You can use either Linux or NT/W2k/XP as the VMWare Host machine.
> You canot use Win9x as a VMWare host, so you'll need to use Linux.
> 
> You _CAN_ run Win98 as a guest OS off a raw/local partition, but
> only on an IDE disk.
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:
> 
> > Just a quick VMWare question so I don't have to learn to read :-)
> > Given, Linux and Windows(9x) installed. Does VMWare install under Linux, 
> > and do I need to reinstall Windows. Or do I need to install VMWare first?
> > 
> > The question is really twofold:
> > First, My current desktop system is now tripple booting. I'm doing a test 
> > install of SuSE8.0 just to make sure everything works. I use Windoz only to 
> > talk to ATTBI customer disservice (which is infrequent). 
> > 
> > Secondly, I may purchanse a new laptop if mine is too expensive to repair, 
> > and I would probably want to use VMWare. The reason is that I am teaching a 
> > course in C at NEU this fall, and the last time I tought it, one of my 
> > students was having trouble compiling a C program under Visual C++, which 
> > was a configuration issue, but I did not have a solution. So, if I get a 
> > new laptop, I should have enough cycles to run either VMWare or Win4Lin. 
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