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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8394
I too run VMware workstation to use Windows programs. 1GB of RAM with a 1.4mhz Pmobile works pretty well. Mine is running on Ubuntu 5.04 with no difficulties. It is nowhere near as fast as Windows running natively but is acceptable. I have used it on Mandrake (Mandriva), Gentoo, Redhat and Debian without difficulty. It boots somewhat slowly but runs pretty well.
The biggest problem with VMware on a laptop is that the host IP changes with locations. And then the guests cannot find the host to share files without a great deal of effort, every time you change locations. It get's old real quick. I take the laptop home at night and I'm tired of changing guest IP info.
There's a very easy way to share files between host and guest in everywhere without modifying anything when changing place.
You just have to add another ethernet interface to the guest. Then you can define that eth0 is for the outside world (using bridge mode, probably dhcp enabled for eth0) and eth1 is using host-only mode. Guest can then have a static ip address or dhcp enabled (usually gets always the same ip address). Host has a static ip address (host-only network adapter Vmnet1), so guest OS always finds the host using that ip address. No more trickies and worries about host and guest, they have created a private LAN. Now you can change the place as much as you like.
by Anonymous on 2005-08-09
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