[Leaplist] for the OSx users

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 15:50, Dan Cherry wrote:

> Okay, you've all piqued my curiosity.  How much PC does it take to run
> VMWare under Linux (minimum) for one session (possibly two when
> testing).  Stephanie (wife) has an eight or nine year old compaq running
> XP.  Since the poor old thing can't last forever, I'm wondering if
> VMWare would be a good replacement (to avoid buying a new PC that has to
> run weindoos.  There are only 2 apps that are needed which run
> exclusively on wiendoos, her payroll and some embroidery software (which
> writes to a proprietary card).  If Those two apps can run on a lower end
> Linux box thru VMWare, then any newer replacement PC can be set up with
> Linux (or maybe even a Mac).

The good thing is it won't cost you anything to find out if your machine has 
enough oomph to do it.

Generally, hard limitations come with ram and HD space. While adequate CPU 
power is important, you will only see about a 10% or less hit compared to 
running directly on the machine without vmware. But nothing can mitigate the 
ram or hd requirements.

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