[sllug-members]: VMWare machines on Linux

[Allen Parker]

On 2/22/07, Fisher, Travis G <Travis.Fisher at nwtox.com> wrote:
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> >On non-accelerated hardware (AMD SVM or Intel VT), I've experienced an
> >average of 15% performance hit compared to native. It's really up to
> >you tbh, I've run win2k on a 486DX2/66 with 256MB ram ;-)
>
>
> Wow. How on earth did you fit 256MB of RAM in a 486????

8x ECC 32MB sticks ;-) it had 2 'full height' 2GB seagate SCSI disk,
an 8MB rage pci card, and was really quite nice for running instant
message clients... mind you, this was win2k rc3 :-p