VMware has its place in large server prod/dev environments. as Rae mentioned you can use WINE, it works for me generally. The other alternative is virtualbox, I use it at home and it actually interfaces a bit better than VMserver. <br>
<br>there is even an option to grant full screen should you need it.<br><br>Manny <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Rae Yip <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rae.yip@gmail.com">rae.yip@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes, NWN has a Linux port for the client and server:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html" target="_blank">http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html</a><br>
<a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/standaloneserver.html" target="_blank">http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/standaloneserver.html</a><br>
<br>
As for general VMware/virtualisation experience, you want a pretty<br>
hefty server to do the job well. Processes that are<br>
throughput-oriented should do fine, whereas latency-sensitive stuff<br>
will suffer.<br>
<br>
You might be better off setting up WINE if it supports what you want to run.<br>
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-Rae.<br>
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Zack, James <<a href="mailto:JZack@unex.ucla.edu">JZack@unex.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> I use VMWare quite a bit, but not for applications as you list. For<br>
> basic server computing type things it works great, but I have never<br>
> tried anything so intensive. I did try to watch a video one time and it<br>
> wasa little choppy.<br>
><br>
> NWN can be run on Linux natively if I recall correctly. I never managed<br>
> to figure it out, but then I had a windows box.<br>
><br>
> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net">sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net">sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net</a>] On<br>
> Behalf Of Emerson, Tom (*IC)<br>
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:59 AM<br>
> To: 'SGVLUG Discussion List.'<br>
> Subject: [SGVLUG] Any VMware users out there?<br>
><br>
> I'm curious about how well (in terms of responsiveness) the "guest"<br>
> system(s) run under a Linux-hosted VMware system -- in particular,<br>
> windows XP. I won't be playing high-end point-n-shoot/run-n-gun games<br>
> (doom/unreal/etc.) as a guest -- I'm already fairly certain those will<br>
> have to be booted directly (oh, the everlasting search for<br>
> game-frame-rates well in excess of the physical capabilities of the<br>
> monitor...) But I might want to run a less-intensive game such as<br>
> neverwinter nights [at least, I don't think they ported a Linux client<br>
> for this...]<br>
><br>
> How is it for other, possibly intensive, applications such as video<br>
> editing (with Premiere)? (ultimately I'd like to do the video editing<br>
> within Linux itself, but I haven't found an NLE I like or understand<br>
> yet) [read "works with my setup and can do HD..."]<br>
><br>
> I suspect that non-intensive apps, such as visual studio, will be just<br>
> fine -- if anyone has direct experience, I'd like to hear about it [and<br>
> again, ultimately I'd like to use a native IDE, and on that front things<br>
> have improved - now if only they can finish a decent IDE for monobasic]<br>
><br>
> I'll be building a new system that I expect will provide far more<br>
> horsepower than I'll need :) [but not as much as I'd /want/ ;) ] so<br>
> running VM's should not be a big deal. What might be questionable would<br>
> be access to hardware (specifically, for burning data, particularly<br>
> video, to DVD or perhaps even blu-ray) -- are there any gotcha's here?<br>
><br>
><br>
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