Re: OT: VMware Workstation v5 released

From: mhthomas <qnxodba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:25:40 -0400
Message-ID: <d6bad08005041006252e630664@mail.gmail.com>

On Apr 9, 2005 1:35 PM, mhthomas <qnxodba_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.vmware.com/download/workstation.html
> http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.exe
>
> Enjoy :-)
>

I don't know how they do it in v5. My first test: I'm running a 1gig guest database (10g RAC/ASM on RHEL3) and my laptop reports less than 200MB total RAM consumed while running XPSP1 host. Not possible? Its great because I do not have to tweak the guest to less that 1gig just to run on the laptop. Also, suspend now takes less than 5 seconds.

I'm really curious what is going on with RAM. I suspect they are swapping to disk but even so it does not make sense to use so little RAM. Maybe they are hiding it some other way on XP host. I don't know.

Regards,

Mike Thomas

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