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Re: [orca-list] Windows and vmware player

I run Windows 7 in a virtual machine with VMware Player under Ubuntu,
and I find the performance acceptable. I don't have all of the specs
Jason does, but it's an I5 processor, and I've assigned 4G of the 8G to
my Windows 7 virtual machine. I did find the occasional overall system
hang when I only had 4G total on this system, and I gave 2G of that to
Windows.

The only problem I can think of is when I tried to run Hope under
Windows in the virtual machine. I'm not sure if the problem was with the
audio or the streaming.

I did buy a new copy of Windows 7 to run in this virtual machine, and I
assume it also used up one of my JAWS licenses. I generally just use
NVDA now, so I'm planning on just letting my JAWS license go when I run
out of SMA's. I don't have a copy of MS Office on this copy of Windows.
I usually just use Libre Office under Ubuntu if I want to use an office
suite. For the most part, I assume this copy of Windows running in a
virtual machine is like another system to Windows and any Windows
applications, so if they require another license to run on another
machine then I'd need a license to run it in this virtual machine.

On 22/09/12 12:26, Speedy wrote:

The Shift key can be added to the Return To Host combination by adding
the following line to the preferences file for Workstation or Player. 

pref.hotkey.shift = "true"

In Windows (XP, Vista, and 7), the location of the preferences.ini file
is: 

%AppData%\Roaming\VMware\

for example:
"C:\Users\Don\AppData\Roaming\VMware\preferences.ini"

In Linux, the location of the preferences file should be: 
~/.vmware/

*Don Marang*
Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>


On 9/22/2012 11:23 AM, Jason Miller wrote:

Hello,

Let's see if I can answer some of these to help out for you. I ran
Windows inside of VmWare player for over a year, running inside of
Vinux, based off of Ubuntu 10.04 on 2 machines.
Hardware:
late 2007/early 2008 Macbook
processor: 2.2GHz c2d
RAM: 4GB DDR2 pc2 5300
HDD: 250GB Hitachi at 7200RPM

Gateway M7301U
Processor: 2.16GHz core duo
RAM: 4GB 284 pin SODIMM
HDD: 320GB at 5400 RPM

I didn't transfer over the Windows partition I had on another
computer, because I had lost it due to hardware failure, so I had to
start from scratch. I was running the windows VM at 2.5GB of the
system's RAM, and Ubuntu off of the other 1.5GB on both of the
systems. I noticed a couple of things, as I've had Windows inside of
VmWare Fusion inside of OSX before, and also as a dual boot on that
machine, along side of OSX. I have to say, that Windows ran amazingly
well on it, with Ubuntu as the native OS, and Windows in the VM. I
could have both systems working, and neither getting bogged down. The
stability was actually a little better than when I had it installed
natively on most of my other machines, and it seemed to react and run
quicker sitting inside the VM for me. All in all, I hadto say that I
didn't notice much degradation in system performance, and that's
comparing my VM at 2.5GB of RAM versus4GB on a native install. I
started with the Windows VM inside of the Macintosh first, and then
copied the folder over to the Gateway a while later. Here's a couple
of tricks for you if you're interested.

This is all assuming you *can't* copy over your current OS partition.
I know there are tools out there to do so, but I don't knwo if they
are accessible, or free for that matter.

First, make sure you set aside a good amount of space for the VM. When
you do that, try to choose the single block option, that way you don't
have parts of your OS/VM spread all over the HDD when it starts to
expand. Grant it, that will take more room at first, but it speeds up
load times, and reaction times of your Windows system in the VM.

Second, after you've gotten the VM the way you'd like it, with things
installed, configured, and system settings/program settings the way
you want, but before you start using the machine, and loading it up
with files, make a backup. With VmWare, there is no snapshot that I
know of with the free player. A simple way to do this, is to simply
make a tar or zip of the folder that has all the system info in it.
Put this in a safe spot for backup.

Finally, for VmWare player at least, I would suggest changing the
"remove focus from VM" key from just control + alt to
control+shift+alt. I cound myself exiting my VM constantly at first
when trying to do things like use control + alt + the arros for tables
and so on. I don't remember the file that had to be edited though, and
I apologize for that.

One last note, and this isn't always recommended, especially if you
are using Windows as a typical production ma\\system, and not a throw
away setup. I never ran any anti-spyware/anti-virus on my system after
making it into a VM. Partof this goes back to the backing up the VM in
a tar/zip. If I *somehow* lost windows to a virus, I could easily just
delete the folder in Ubuntu, and spend a little while unziipping, and
copying the folder to where I deleted it from. As I said, I wouldn't
suggest this as something to do in a production system, but with me,
windows was just there for the last couple of games I couldn't play,
and that's it.

Hope that helps a little for answering some of your questions. Again,
sorry I can't answer if the licenseswould carry over, hopefully
someone else here can for you.




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