From: "Robert Comer" 

> According to VMWare group product manager Srinivas Krishnamurtiff, there
> are some things that are not virtualizable.  One of them is the host
> system's process.  Said Krishnamurtiff "there's a processor ID that's not
> virtualizable."

That's a possibility, even with Virtual PC, neither one emulate the
processor, that would be a big speed hit.  fwiw, in all my travels with VPC
and VMWare, I never had to reactivate because of changing hosts. (not yet
anyway!)  The processor ID isn't the only thing that's not virtualizable.

Maybe I haven't had a problem with it because I don't have one of the newer
processors...

--
Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:44046759$1{at}w3....
> Thanks, I've got a free disk on this pc right now and was planning to use
> this to give the VMware player a try.
>
> I really wasn't aware about the VM player until I read a blurb about it
> and XP authentication. After going to the VMware site I thought it could
> possibly be useful with Linux - especially after  others did the work to
> assemble the virtual applications 
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2631
>
> VMWare Player triggers Windows Activation process Posted by David Berlind
> {at} 3:37 pm
>
> According to VMWare group product manager Srinivas Krishnamurtiff, there
> are some things that are not virtualizable.  One of them is the host
> system's process.  Said Krishnamurtiff "there's a processor ID that's not
> virtualizable."
>
>
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:4404651e{at}w3....
>>> Generic DYI box, ASUS mb, Athlon X2 , 2 gig mem, 4 SATA drives.
>>
>> I'm jealous!  That config should be very nice for running your
>> VMWare/Ubuntu combo, but I might suggest installing VMWare and the Ubuntu
>> virtual hard drive on something other than your system disk, and I'd only
>> allocate 512M of RAM to it. (if you have the choice)
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:4404546e{at}w3....
>>>
>>> "Robert Comer"  wrote
in message
>>> news:44043e98{at}w3....
>>>>> Anyone download and play with the free VMware Player
for Windows?
>>>>
>>>> Not me, when you have the paid for version you wouldn't
need this. (and
>>>> I use Virtual PC way more often anyway)
>>>>
>>>>> It looks like Ubuntu Linux is provided as a free
Virtual Application.
>>>>> Rather than booting Knopix is this a reasonable way to play with
>>>>> Linux?
>>>>
>>>> It depends on how they set it up, but it sounds like it would be a
>>>> great way to do it.  What kind of hardware do you have?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>> Generic DYI box, ASUS mb, Athlon X2 , 2 gig mem, 4 SATA drives.
>>>
>>> I dl-ed the VM Player and a few Linux applications last night. I figure
>>> I'll give it a try in the next few days
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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