not sure if OT or nOT : Oracle < Linux < Vmware < XP

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Thu Nov 29 18:51:20 PST 2007


On Nov 28, 2007 8:54 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/28/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> > > On Nov 27, 2007 11:08 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> What part of "I have a PC running Windows XP" was confusing?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Nothing. but most of us also absorbed the point that he is running a
> > > Linux guest and using Oracle.
> > >
> > > More to the point, I've observed this type of behavior from time to
> > > time with Vmware. In our case, we're running a Linux system with
> > > Vmplayer to serve up Windows. From time to time, the whole machine
> > > goes out to lunch for a while.
> > >
> >
> > I am glad to know about this. I was thinking about rebuilding my
> > notebook with Linux as host os and windows as guest. But if vmware is
> > not stable even in case of Linux as host, then I just keep my current
> > settings.
>
> I'm running VMWare, with Linux as the host OS, on several different
> systems, and have never experienced any instability.
>

Just an FYI. This was specifically Vmplayer. Vmserver appears to be
more stable in our experience at work.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



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