Windows XP on VMware

[acal3000]

I am running Windows XP Pro though VMware as guest thorugh a Linux Distro as host but . the perfomance in the Windows vistualized machine is pretty damn bad I know always is more slow since is some kind of emulation but is out of hand. The perfomance in the linux Distro is fine. What can i do to improve the perfomance of this crap?

[born2phrag]

Have you tried increasing the ram available to your VMware machine? Or just try a dual boot of Windows XP and Linux?

[JN4OldSchool]

actually, with VMWare you might try DECREASING your RAM. I would just use the default 256MB I think. You physical hardware will also determin how fast your guest OS runs. On my computer XP is as fast as a physical install. All linux distros boot like butter. My dad cant run VMWare, it is just too slow. It just irritates him to try.

[acal3000]

The other day I was having several problems with the XP thing I had all the 640 Mb all my physical RAM assigned to XP so obviously the perfomance went crap I lowered to 384 and semeed a little better but after some hours s w nt crap again then I tried 224 and 512 but the Windows XP didn't want to boot took a lot of time so I got tired so restarted the machine lowred the virtual RAM to 256 put the VMware tools things tool on XP and got lots better until now has been working fine The problem maybe was that withthe hight value or RAM on the virtual machine I wasn't letting memory to my Linux since both were running at the same time. I still need to continue testing but If have a problem I will post it here and i have a question I have been reading information on the web You still can't play games efficiently through on VMware right? I was reading the 3d acceleeration is still experimental I still haven tried yet only with Sacred but got only a black screen and with the 3d test test in direct x fail and you can't install some video and sound drivers since all are emulated. have actually tried running have thorught this way JN?What have been your results if you did it ?

[JN4OldSchool]

To the best of my knowledge VMWare server (the free one) does not contain ANY 3D graphic acceleration. So no, no games. And this sucks because VMWare beats the heck outta Wine, Cedega, QEMU, XEN and anything else I have tried. In fact, short of 2 or 3 programs in Wine I havent got anything else to work at all. VMWare is a class act. If they had 3D there wouldnt be anymore problems.

[acal3000]

To the best of my knowledge VMWare server has no aNY 3D graphic acceleration.(

Tons of people of says forums that VMware has no 3d acceleration but this is not completely true anymore since ver 5 I think the problem is that is still very experimantal at the moment and still don't work well I have VMware 5.5.2 Worstation I added the the acceleration thing by editting the OS VMX file of the virtual machine and adding this lines

mks.enable3d = TRUE
svga.vramSize = 67108864

The second line to increase Vram to 64 Mb of Vram the maxium value supported at the moment is is 128 of Vram and pixel shaders and other things still don't work + ATI drivers for Linus sucks balls

I added this and when I open run dxdiag on the XP virtual machine syas that 3d acceleartion and direct draw are working but when I do the direct 3d test this fail I tried the same lines in the win 98 virtual machine and don't register nothing I guess gonna have to wait until VMware improves this feature

[JN4OldSchool]

Hmmm, news to me but I hope they do get it working. I would even pay for VMWare player if it could game on Linux. But as it stands now VMWare server is great for testing other OS's without the need for a seperate partition. I think it is a quality piece of software that blows wine/cedega, qemu and any others away.

[acal3000]

Ht stands now VMWare server is great for testing other OS's without the need for a seperate partition. I think it is a quality piece of software that blows wine/cedega, qemu and any others away.

I agree I haven't had to much luck with wine/cedega either. Cedega is supposed to be a good solution for gamming but I have only got working a few games and some don't work as should be or not at all and wine well let's not talk about it most of the time seems to not work the only improved thing I have seen on newer version is that now the installer don't take so much time installing windows applications as did in the past and updates oftens unlike Cedega that is not very often