Re: VMWare Player (was XY4 in Win7-64)

["William H. TeBrake" tebrake@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan,

My laptop is an older, moderate dual-core machine running Win XP (sp3),
and VMWare Player does seem to work OK. To be honest, however, I haven't
really used the virtual Linux client on that machine very much: just an
experiment to see if it could be done with only 2 gigs or memory, and it
can. If VMWare Player didn't work for me, I was planning on trying
VirtualBox, but, since it worked, I haven't done that. As far as eCS
(OS/2) is concerned, as near as I can tell, after a very brief search,
it should work, as long as you have an installation disk or an image
(iso) file. See, for example:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eComStation/message/83101

Best regards,

Bill TeBrake

On 8/2/2012 2:21 PM, J R FOX wrote:
> William,
>
> Depending on which computer we're talking about, I have anywhere
> from 3.5 G. to 8G. of RAM installed. My question was more about
> the power of the CPU. That also affects VM performance -- a lot.
> In these days of i3 / i5 / i7, I'm well behind the curve with
> the older, moderate dual-cores. (AMD x2 Athlons, or their Intel
> contemporaries.)
>
> After reading various comments here, I'm leaning towards this
> VMware Player, rather than Virtual PC or the others. (No one
> mentioned VirtualBox . . . . )
>
> I had been a proponent of dual-boot setups, but XP seems to have
> just bugged out on my main laptop. It goes off to a black screen
> La-La Land at bootup. I know it's not the hardware, because the
> alternate boot -- eCS -- is still working fine. So, I'm looking
> at an XP "repair install", and hoping this won't lose all the
> updates and security fixes etc. etc. accumulated over the last
> few years. I think that is claimed to be the case (?), but I've
> never tried it. The VM thing is starting to look a lot more
> appealing. But, I really don't want to give up eCS. (That's the
> OS/2 successor.) As far as I knew, VirtualBox was the only
> virtualizer that did OS/2 . . . but I think it had to be the Host
> and XP had to be the client.
>
>
>  Jordan