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Re: TS 8.x on vmware?



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Ralf, Very helpful post. Few questions:
1. TS isn't listing win2k as a supported OS for their builds. But you are running TS 8.3 on win2000 vm without problems? Just want to confirm 2. You are running Ubuntu on 6 monitors - nice (I might request you for a copy of your xorg.conf if I go that route). The guest OS, win2k - can that take up say 4 monitors? Any issues with mouse etc?

Thanks,
Abhijit


On 4/26/2008 2:05 PM, rabolu@xxxxxx wrote:
Hi,

I use it on my Trading PC , cause I'm frustrated to shut down a working system and next day nothing works... my personal feeling is that the best thing to keep a MS system alive is to install nothing. The next point is the more and more strict activation policy of MS - Hey I bought several licenses - give MS my hard earned money - and I hate to take a phone call to MS cause I changend a Harddisk or something else on my PC. And the rest I can say with one word: VISTA - the minimum hardware requirements drive me crazy... I need a OS with works stable nothing more but when a OS needs more Hardware than the software I use there is something wrong - With Vista on it my Laptop would be unusable

So I step for step turned my used software to Open-Source which also works under Linux

from IE to Firefox
from Outlook to Thunderbird
from MSOffice to OpenOffice... and so on - then I switched to Ubuntu last year

Today I can do all of my daily needs under Linux - and trust me - the installation of a Linux system for multimonitor use is a little bit tricky - sure - but after it works (6 Monitors) - I have no problems at
all and it runs without any glitch..

Yesterday I setup the new Ubuntu 8.04 on my Laptop - 4 hours and all Software is personal adapted and working - for me as an long time MS-update-approved user - really amazing - the system didn't slow down in speed -
my last XP setup - I can't remember the days...

So for Software I can't use under Linux (TS2000i and some days ago TS8) - I use VMs - and thats really great -
use the best of all worlds at the same time..

I made several VMs
- 1 VM - I use as Master - Win2000 installed with security software - then I copy this VM and made
- 1 VM for Trading - I install no other software on it
- 1 VM for Testing software

Win2000Pro is best the best choice if you take your VMs between different PCs no activation problem...

I made regualary backups of my VMs - if a problem appear - I only switch to the backup and didn't
have to stop working any more...

Bye

Ralf

Jimmy Snowden schrieb:
> Do you use the VMware Workstation 6 with a server computer or just on
> your trading computer?  Why did you go to this configuration?
>
> Any information appreciated,
>
> Jimmy
>
>
> Hi,
>
> yes, I used TS8 with VMware Workstation 6 and Sun Virtualbox with WinXP
> Pro as guest OS and Ubuntu 7.10 as Host - works without any Problem.
> Yesterday I switched to Ubuntu 8.04 host without problem.
>
> But yet I would prefer Suns VirtualBox over VMware Workstation - cause I
> feel it works much faster with WinXP
>
> Two Things are importend:
>
> 1. Memory 1GB or greater, so the host and guest has enough memory for work
> 2. If you create a virtual Harddisk remember that it's not easy to
> expand the virtual size later
>     ( I work with 50GB virtual Harddisks - so I have enough space for
> later installations - don't worry
> about the size - virtualdisks only takes the place it really needs
> - at the moment  my biggest
>       VM takes about 15 GB fom the Harddisk )
>      >