I recently converted my laptop from dual-boot to linux-only, and made the windows portion a VMWare guest.
For the most part, things worked ok -- with the following exceptions:
o VMWare suspend is slower than a VMWare reboot
o Even though I limited the session to 768mb, it seems to eat more and
more resources as it runs, requiring frequent vmware restarts.
o This eventually makes the host slow, which requires linux reboots.
o One of the apps I needed, the Cisco IP Phone, does not work under vmware,
so now I have to use Skype -- which I have to pay for.
o My Video Chipset (FireGL 3200) is not supported by the current accelerated drivers, so gaming is out.
o And, power management. I've set linux to drop the cpu speed when it gets hot -- but it still seems to burn WAY more power than windows, cooking my legs too often.
So -- I'm considering going a different direction. I still don't want dual boot -- there are several times when having access to both windows and linux at the same time is very useful. So, I'm considering using XP as the *Host* os, and running Linux in a VMware session. So -- this generates some questions:
o I *assume* that Linux will be WAY more friendly in a vmware session than windows -- is this a correct assumption?
o Is VMWare the best thing to use here? I know Linux is pretty happy in other virtualizers -- which one works best with windows as a host? Before anyone starts talking about *real* virtualizers -- keep in mind I have a Pentium M, w/o the VT stuff -- So -- Xen is out.
o And, finally -- a windows partition thingie question. I physically switched disks when I did this (after using VMWare converter to make my vmware drive). I still have the old partition. Is there an easy way to convert a small partition on one disk to a larger partition on another disk?
Thanks in advance,
-Dave
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David Frascone
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