[SGVLUG] Any VMware users out there?

[Zack, James]

I use VMWare quite a bit, but not for applications as you list.  For
basic server computing type things it works great, but I have never
tried anything so intensive.  I did try to watch a video one time and it
wasa little choppy.

NWN can be run on Linux natively if I recall correctly.  I never managed
to figure it out, but then I had a windows box. 

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Subject: [SGVLUG] Any VMware users out there?

I'm curious about how well (in terms of responsiveness) the "guest"
system(s) run under a Linux-hosted VMware system -- in particular,
windows XP.  I won't be playing high-end point-n-shoot/run-n-gun games
(doom/unreal/etc.) as a guest -- I'm already fairly certain those will
have to be booted directly  (oh, the everlasting search for
game-frame-rates well in excess of the physical capabilities of the
monitor...)  But I might want to run a less-intensive game such as
neverwinter nights [at least, I don't think they ported a Linux client
for this...]

How is it for other, possibly intensive, applications such as video
editing (with Premiere)?  (ultimately I'd like to do the video editing
within Linux itself, but I haven't found an NLE I like or understand
yet)  [read "works with my setup and can do HD..."]

I suspect that non-intensive apps, such as visual studio, will be just
fine -- if anyone has direct experience, I'd like to hear about it [and
again, ultimately I'd like to use a native IDE, and on that front things
have improved - now if only they can finish a decent IDE for monobasic]

I'll be building a new system that I expect will provide far more
horsepower than I'll need :)  [but not as much as I'd /want/ ;) ] so
running VM's should not be a big deal.  What might be questionable would
be access to hardware (specifically, for burning data, particularly
video, to DVD or perhaps even blu-ray) -- are there any gotcha's here?