Posted on 10/03/2009 8:02:36 PM PDT by djf
Anybody ever install VMware Server under Windows/ME?
I got it working under Win2K, but am thinking about something leaner and meaner for the hypervisor part.
Experiences? Positives? Negatives?
ROFL! Made me laugh out loud, thanks. Best laugh I've had all day.
What are you trying to do? You might be a lot happier booting a “live” cd of a guest O/S. That would certainly give you better performance.
Maybe an upgrade to CP/M would be in order. ME? It wasn’t even good when it was new.
?? You are going to move from Windows 2000 to ME under VMWare virtualization? Stay with 2000. 2000 is not bad but ME is dog sh*t.
Tell that to our embedded systems.
We do it every day.
Windows Xp Embedded is NOT a virtual os. It is a componentized “thin client”. Enough services can be added to turn it into a full blown version of xp professional.
The beauty of XP Embedded is that it can boot and run from as little as 32M of flash and 32m of ram.
Te developer only adds the device drivers and components he needs to keep the os as small and fast as they want.
The registration stuff is a pain...
Took me about 2, well almost 3 hours to get it up and running and figure out enough about it to boot a floppy.
I now have disks defined and am installing WIN98.
Will make a decision about what to do next later.
BTW, this is on a box with dual PIII’s and 2.5 Gig of memory, and about half a terabyte of disk...
I use Fedora 11’s KVM based hypervisor. It is incredibly fast when used in a system that supports hardware virtualization. It even does USB & PCI device pass through.
You might try the baremetal ESXi install, which is free. It lacks the service console that ESX has but might do the trick for you, if it will install. The baremetal installations have rather limited driver support since they are striving for stability and have a set compatibility list.
No, he’ll be using Hollerith cards.
i use it on a altair running cpm - it’s killer!
sorry dave but there is no beauty in a windows os only pain, suffering, overcharging and tragedy....windows vista - gone! xp - eol! notsosmartphone - crap! why do they call windows sunday software? because it’s so holy! xp embedded? 6,000 lines of linux code will probably do the same thing for FREE!
It all depends on the application software.
Not everything runs on Linux nor do we have the time
to port it all.
Xp embedded running out of 32M of flash at $90.00 does just fine.
There is no free lunch.
Really, now, I’m just in testing and discovery mode.
Almost all my machines (and I have abt 8 laptops and 2 desktops) are set up to do dual boot of one form or another.
And I have Knoppix and Red Hat floating around somewhere.
Sp this is really just play, not business...
We’re having fun and expressing puzzlement, not calling you stupid. Windows ME is a notorious failure; if you were running Windows 98 people would be far less inclined to wonder why the heck you are doing that! (In fact, when Windows ME came out, many people reverted back to 98!)
(and 98 was pretty bad, too!)
Count me on your list of "fools". I bought it once, for 50 bucks, and used it on at least a dozen generations of my computer since then, for the last ten years. I don't need home networking, and it has done almost everything I need. (I had to buy a different computer with Vista to run income tax software.)
How much have you (non-fools) spent on XP and Vista and Windows 7 in the last ten years?
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