[Quantian-general] Run Quantian iso via the free VMware Player on Windows or Linux

[A.J. Rossini]

about 9 months ago, OpenMOSIX didn't play nicely with VMWare when I
tried.  I don't know if this has changed (i.e. not VMWare on top of
OM, but OM on top of VMWare, i.e. pseudo- 2-node cluster on SMP
machines).

On 12/22/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Tom Short had emailed me about his success in running the Quantian 0.7.9.1
> iso alongside Windows XP on his laptop.  This uses the 'free as in beer'
> VMware Player which is available for Windows and Linux "hosts".
>
> So far, I only had time for a brief trial on my (Kubutu) Linux desktop which
> I summarised in a short post at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/
>
> I had this set up in literally a few minutes, and ended up with
>  - two emulated Quantian sessions, each at 256mb on a 1gb desktop
>  - these suspend ram to a diskfile on exit and "rebooted" instantly to the
>    exact same state -- very nice feature
>  - offer cdrom, soundcard, usb 2.0 and networking, I only tried networking
>    which worked like a charm (fast webbrowsing etc)
>  - I tried openMosix between two instances but no real success there; this
>    may require some work on the networking configuration.
>
> I had one inquiry regarding Windows as a host, and I'd love to get feedback
> on that. My goal is two new short Quantian HOWTOs for Linux and Windows, and
> I will need help on the Windows part.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
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-tony

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