----- Original Message -----
From: "Urban Boquist" <boquist@crt.se>
To: <jimtnelson@earthlink.net>
Cc: "NetBSD" <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 05:46 AM
Subject: Re: VMware


> >>>>> James Tuman Nelson writes:
>
> James> I am interested in this vmware package.  How well does it work
> James> running on NetBSD?
>
> It seems that you need some luck for it to work well. I'm running
> Windows98 inside VMware on my NetBSD-current laptop and it works
> extremely well. On the other hand I'm seeing the same "frequent
> pauses" problem that others have reported when I run the same thing on
> another machine...
>
> So i guess you should just try it, and see if you're lucky! ;-)

I haven't heard this-- is there a list with more discussion of VMware on
NetBSD?  I'm considering it to run a production win32 app, but if the
`frequent pauses' add up to the same amount of time it takes to reboot there
isn't much point.

>
> James> Would it allow installation of Windows NT on a separate drive?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by that. VMware can use "raw disks" but it
> has also a very handy concept of "virtual disks" that translate over
> to a single NetBSD file. You can install entirely in a virtual disk,
> no need to risk messing with the raw disk.

Are there native tools to manipulate the virtual disk from the NetBSD side?

>
> Regards,
>
>         -- Urban

Bob