VM Ware

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

Mainly I am tired of carrying two laptops, granted the 2nd is a
Libretto U105, ultra small but ultra hard to type on.  I fat-finger
the hell out of that thing.

I am not technically supposed to even check web based email on it.
(My boss plays World of Warcraft on his so I think I am ok on that
department)  I do things I would rather not leave tracks in the snow
about.  Online banking... Scirocco Porn... regular pr0n!  Even
music...

I have an external hard drive and the machine itself is a dual core
1.8 with a gig and a half of ram.  So it should be decent.  I may even
have to put "crack" on it.  (Counter Strike is more addictive than
crack)  I spend most of my evening surfing the net in a hotel room, so
I don't feel too bad about it.

BTW I have noticed that a verizon wireless card JACKS UP the usb
pipelines into the virtual machine.  So that may limit my access at
times.

Thanks all
Chris

On 12/28/06, Mark Bednarz <vwsportruck@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Although I don't have direct experience with it, I do recall from a seminar
> I attended that they do act as separate machines and can network to/from
> each other, etc., so I would assume that what you'd like to do would work
> just fine.
>
> -=Mark
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> Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK so got a new laptop from the company.
>
> Traditionally they write all software inhouse and most of the software
> doesn't play well with others. So you end up with a dual boot config
> and usually you have to orphan something and/or uninstall and
> reinstall different rev's of said software, depending on application.
> Each rev IS stable. The end user never has to deal with two different
> revisions--just the field service engineers. So I suggested a while
> back that I could do this more efficiently with a better laptop using
> VMware. Of course I was told that we don't do business that way and
> what six months later here I am trying to do something with VMware
> because now we DO business like that. Someone obviously had a
> simultaneous idea or flat out took credit for mine... whichever at
> this point I do not care.
>
> VMware is a program that runs virtual machines. You create
> "environments" to test software or in this case compartmentalize
> software so that different rev's play nice with one another. So I
> have VMware player(?) very much like Adobe Reader... you can view but
> you can't create or change.
>
> Since I have used VMware to run Vista in a window and linux in a
> window, I have some experience but there are things that I don't
> know...
>
> Currently I have the HOST operating system running and four virtual
> computers booted. (three xp and one server 2003) I can pause and
> shut down the virtual PC's and reopen the shortcut and it was like I
> never shut them down. From what I can tell I am using FIVE windows
> licenses altogether.
>
> Also from playing with the program it seems that the virtual machines
> share resources with the host machine--like broadband connections.
> >From what I have gathered it seems that you can surf the net in a
> VMware environment and it doesn't pass cookies or history data to the
> host machine. Is this true?
>
> I have loaded up VMware 5.5 on my personal computer and have created a
> virtual machine running XP Home. If I wanted to play a game or surf
> the net, I am hoping that I can do that and isolate the host.
>
> Thoughts? Suggestion?
>
>
>
> On 12/27/06, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > Is anyone a VMWare Guru? Just wondering...
> >
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