[SGVLUG] Any VMware users out there?

[Rae Yip]

Yes, NWN has a Linux port for the client and server:

http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/standaloneserver.html

As for general VMware/virtualisation experience, you want a pretty
hefty server to do the job well. Processes that are
throughput-oriented should do fine, whereas latency-sensitive stuff
will suffer.

You might be better off setting up WINE if it supports what you want to run.

-Rae.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Zack, James <JZack at unex.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Emerson, Tom (*IC)
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:59 AM
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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?
>
>