DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: QEMU is ok, but VMWare is much faster (And Free?)

tstone2077, Thanks for sharing!

This works great on my lowly 500Mhz 256MB Thninkpad.

Your approach with a simple txt file and our standard iso makes it very easy and simple to "upgrade" too.

Doing a modprobe sb as root gives me sound.

Loading up extensions works fine.

Then exiting vmplayer saves the virtual machine.
This means no backup required. I just have to remember NOT to do a shutdown or reboot in dsl and instead use the "X" exit of vmplayer, so that the virtual machine is saved.

Extensions even loaded into /tmp will work across reboots.
Same for the modprobe sb This makes things very simple

The only drawback is that it is not portable. The vmplayer must be installed on the Windows computer.
But still, another cool way to experience dsl.

Hello People from DSL,

This week I'm plenty happy with DSL.

I've Installed for the very first time a frugal rc2 on my NB toshiba AMD K6 II 475 MHz, and it works very well.

Last night, I've installed DSL on a 128Mb MMC card (from my Digital camera) using my card reader/writer. A USB-HDD install made MMC card usable both in windows and DSL. Perfect.

Last night, I also discovered this topic about vmware player, just downloaded set up the litlle notepad, renamed , and I am running it. My P4 1.8 512 Ram is running quite smooth and look like DSL is the only OS runnig in my machine.

Fantastic, I'm amazed.

Now I have to find a way to use swap partition rinning DSL under VMW-Player.

Thanks this fantastic FREE Hint.

NettoBr from Brazil.

BTW the only two required files for vmPlayer can be easily created. Configuration file *.vmx by any text editor and virtual disk file by qemu-img utility. Player creates all the rest automatically.

Has anyone thought about having DSL as the host for vmPlayer ? With DSL's small footprint, it can be the ideal host giving most of the resources to guest machines. I'll try to set this up but a packaged DSL + vmPlayer would be great.

it won't work until the vmplayer is available on Linux.

...unless you want to run DSL + Wine + VMplayer + virtual machine

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