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Guess the only reason to have VMWare on my windows machine is going away soon. Hope there are some reduction in computational overhead.

fb03 9y ago
This is something that bothers me on my current setup (Xubuntu on Virtualbox): LATENCY while using X. On the tty everything feels snappy but as soon as I use a graphic terminal, it feels choppy and typing feels sluggish. I'm not even using Unity because then it'd be just unusable..
- Nullabillity 9y ago
  Did you install the guest additions?
  - fb03 9y ago
    Yeah I did. Console-based (tty) video feels snappy and devoid of lag, but X.org feels a bit sluggish, still. I've tried Windows XP etc on VBOX with the guest addition and it feels soo much snappier ;(
glenneroo 9y ago
I'm guessing they talked with VMWare before doing this? I wonder what implications/benefits this has for VMWare, since their (limited) Player has been free for a while now. Then again, according to Wikipedia, maybe they were already planning for this? > VMware Workstation versions 12.0.0, 12.0.1, and 12.1.0 were released at intervals of about two months in 2015.[61] In January 2016 the entire development team behind VMware Workstation and Fusion was disbanded and all US developers were immediately fired.[8][9][10][12] The future of these products remained vague; the company said that development would continue. On April 24, 2016, maintenance release 12.1.1 was released. VMware announced the release on 8 September 2016 of Workstation 12.5 and Fusion 8.5 as a free upgrade supporting Windows 10 Anniversary edition and Windows Server 2016.[13]
- sorenjan 9y ago
  There are other reasons to want to use a VM, like guest isolation and multiple environments. I like to run unknown software in a VM first.
  - shortlyfinally 9y ago
    VMWare is great for setting up a test networking environment too. Workstation's virtual interface setup is nice and allowed me to test a host of operating systems, a custom router to test firewall rules, 802.1x security and a RADIUS server. All in a simple virtual environment.

fb03 9y ago

This is something that bothers me on my current setup (Xubuntu on Virtualbox): LATENCY while using X. On the tty everything feels snappy but as soon as I use a graphic terminal, it feels choppy and typing feels sluggish. I'm not even using Unity because then it'd be just unusable..

Nullabillity 9y ago
Did you install the guest additions?
- fb03 9y ago
  Yeah I did. Console-based (tty) video feels snappy and devoid of lag, but X.org feels a bit sluggish, still. I've tried Windows XP etc on VBOX with the guest addition and it feels soo much snappier ;(

glenneroo 9y ago

I'm guessing they talked with VMWare before doing this? I wonder what implications/benefits this has for VMWare, since their (limited) Player has been free for a while now. Then again, according to Wikipedia, maybe they were already planning for this? > VMware Workstation versions 12.0.0, 12.0.1, and 12.1.0 were released at intervals of about two months in 2015.[61] In January 2016 the entire development team behind VMware Workstation and Fusion was disbanded and all US developers were immediately fired.[8][9][10][12] The future of these products remained vague; the company said that development would continue. On April 24, 2016, maintenance release 12.1.1 was released. VMware announced the release on 8 September 2016 of Workstation 12.5 and Fusion 8.5 as a free upgrade supporting Windows 10 Anniversary edition and Windows Server 2016.[13]

sorenjan 9y ago
There are other reasons to want to use a VM, like guest isolation and multiple environments. I like to run unknown software in a VM first.
- shortlyfinally 9y ago
  VMWare is great for setting up a test networking environment too. Workstation's virtual interface setup is nice and allowed me to test a host of operating systems, a custom router to test firewall rules, 802.1x security and a RADIUS server. All in a simple virtual environment.