Re: WDSC in a VM (was You wanna talk about POed... )

Hi Scott,
 
You wrote:

Has VMWare become a little more reasonable? I ran VMWare on FreeBSD > 
(running a Windows guest to get some Windows stuff, including WDSC) a > few 
years ago, but the performance was just terrible. Especially with WDSC.

I find VMWare very useful, especially for test environments. But I only run it 
on Windows hosts, so I can't tell you anything about running it on a *NIX 
platform.
 

The other thing I never liked about WMWare was that it made it's own > 
desktop that took up the full resolution that the Windows guest was > running 
under. For example, if I enabled 1024x768 in the guest, it > created a 
desktop window that was 1024x768, and everything had to run > inside that 
window. It was just too awkward to switch between > applications that way.

I don't remember having issues with moving around in the VMWare guest windows. 
But most of the times I don't use the VMWare window. I just create a VM guest, 
and when it is up and running I connect via RDP to Windows VM's and to Linux 
via SSH or VNC or whatever that particular VM is setup with.
 

Has that changed at all? And, is the performance better now?

 
Performance is IMHO related to the capacity of the host machine and memory 
configuration.
Swapping must be avoided as much as can, it is terrible for VM's.

Also, has anyone tried WDSC running under QEMU? QEMU runs faster than > 
VMWare... but I still find it too awkward to get any real use out of.

 
Not tried it yet, if I had time I would....
Best regards,
Arco Simonse