Any suggestions on getting WinXP final installed under VMware 2.0?

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> >
> > > For reference sake, I'm using VMware-2.0.4 build 1295
> > > with the applied module patches (using a 2.4.9+acl kernel)
> >
> > btw, how much of a memory do you need to run guest WinXP ?
>
> I've got 512Mb in my desktop.  96Mb allocated for the XP
> vmware session.  Haven't experiemented with that number alot
> obviously.  I figure if Win2k needs at least 64Mb, my formula
> of adding 32Mb per new release should be about right :)

I tried to launch NT, for experiment, in vmware on machine with 64MB
of _physical_ memory. Hmmm ... interesting results ... ;-)

> cheers, jerry
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cheers,
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