The Computer with no name has passed...

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

The computer with no name is back!

The base install on Son-Of-No-Name is complete. I installed the VMware so now I have The-Computer-With-No-Name running as a virtual PC inside Son-Of-No-Name (err, perhaps I better make that Daughter-Of-No-Name)

So now I am typing this using remote desktop from work to access a virtual PC on Daughter-of-no-name.

I'll be adding additional virtual machines for Vista and Ubuntu. Life is good.


My inner-geek is shining bright today.

I'm so happy for you Moonie, as for me

[€uroMeinke]

That sounds cool - but what does it mean? Why would I want it too? Tell me, so that I can envy you more.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Moonie, what version of VMWare are you running?

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

That sounds cool - but what does it mean? Why would I want it too? Tell me, so that I can envy you more.

VMware is an operating system that lets you run multiple "virtual machines" on a single computer. So he can have the equivalent of 3 (or more) different computers running the same time on the same hardware. Among other advantages, you can screw up one of the "virtual" operating systems all you want and easily revert back without effecting your main operating system at all. So, since I know Moonie hates Vista, I presume he's installing a Vista Virtual Machine for the purpose of seeing how badly he can break it without worrying about reinstalling his entire OS.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Moonie, what version of VMWare are you running?

Workstation 6 at home, I also use ESX on work servers.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I presume he's installing a Vista Virtual Machine for the purpose of seeing how badly he can break it without worrying about reinstalling his entire OS.

Basically. I'm hoping, as you have alluded to, that SP1 will fix up some of the issues Vista has. I also have clients that are starting to use Vista so I need a playground to work with no matter what my personal feelings about it are.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

That sounds cool - but what does it mean? Why would I want it too? Tell me, so that I can envy you more.

In essence VMware is a program like Microsoft word is a program

Word lets you load and work on multiple documents

VMware lets you load and work on multiple PC's

So Daughter-Of-Computer-With-No-Name runs Windows XP. I then run the VMware application (just like starting word) and that loads an entire new PC.

As long as you have disk space and memory it all goes along swimmingly.

[Morrigoon]

Oooh, I wanna learn how to do that!

[Pirate Bill]

Here's a fun use for virtual machines.

[Moonliner]

So what's everyone using for benchmarking software? I'm thinking of updating my PCmark software.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

Here's a fun use for virtual machines.

I love xkcd when it doesn't fly completely over my head

[CoasterMatt]

I use VMware for folding@home.

BTW, I'm running Vista SP1 RC1, and so far, it's eliminated an annoying lockup I had at startup (at seemingly random times), and I've gotten better results in UT3.