Laptop OS Virtualization?

[Mark Polhamus]

I've been running VMware on laptops for years now.  VMware 3.x worked almost
flawlessly on my Dell Inspiron 7500 running Win98 on top of RedHat 7.3.  For
some reason I have problems with mouse and keyboard response when running
VMware 4.5 hosted on SuSE 9.3 with guest Win2k on an IBM Thinkpad G41.  I get
jerky mouse response and more duplicate keystrokes when VMware is running, on
host and guest OS but it is worse in the guest.  Its a bit painful, but it
beats booting into Windows and allows me to use the Windows-only programs I
need.  I've been able to figure out how to attach USB devices to the guest and
they seem to mostly work.


-- Mark Polhamus

Ted Roche wrote:
> Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal 
> machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client  work)
> and Linux (more client work, home & hobby), and I'd like to be  able to
> toggle between the two rather than a slow reboot.
> 
> Anyone doing this? What VM manager are you using? What host OS? Tips? 
> Reviews? Pans? Warnings?
> 
> Ted "You've got answers? I've got questions!" Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
> 
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