On 2012-07-06 14:46, chucktr wrote:
>
> Hello Carlos,
>
> Good to hear a friendly voice. Anyway, the version of VMware that we
> are using is:
>
> VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.4-744019.x86_64.bundle
Then it is possible that the same patch might be necessary for the player
version. I’ll keep it in mind.
> You will notice that it is a 64-bit version. We are finally joining
> the 64-bit crowd. The main reason it cause VMware 8 -and- Windows 8
> require 64-bit hardware. That seems to be the push now-a-days …
> whether you need it or not. One of the main reasons we use VMware is
> so we can have versions of the same Operating Systems that our customers
> use.
Oh, absolutely. It is very useful for that. Me, in a smaller (private)
scale do the same.
> We are running Windows XP Multi-Media, openSUSE 11.4,
> Windows 2000, Vista, Windows 7 and openSUSE 12.2 all on the same
> machine — some because of VMware. Which is some of the finest
> software we have encountered. No, we do not run them all at the same
> time. However, we have had openSUSE 11.4, Windows 2000 and Vista
> all running at the same time. Haven’t tried for a fourth system yet.
> (can’t believe that we are gona say this) We -only- have 4GB of RAM.
> Remember the days when 64k was the limit??? Or are you to young?? 
Yes, I do remember. As a student, yes. I dreamed of having a Sinclair ZX 81
with a whole 1 KiB!
I also remember looking at code doing real math using 8 bit words…
Looking, eh? I did not do that coding. Or machines that used 255 KiB when
the limit was 64.
My personal feat was coding an orbital launcher in a TI-58 C calculator,
using every step of memory and every register available, in high school…
and I could not boast of it because nobody understood it. Not one of my
friends knew what programming was. Perhaps one, he was even more geekier
than me.
> Also haven’t gotten hold of a Windows 8 copy yet. So we don’t know
> how it will work inside VMware -but- we are fairly certain that it will
> work just fine.
I have seen a beta from 2 meters distance. I did not like the looks.
> Now then we must say that this latest version is using the new
> kernel, a new KDE and a new nVidia. So, we are not sure which one
> fixed it -but- it is apparently fixed. Hopefully no future changes will
> break it.
Oh, expect breaks, somewhere…
:-p
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)