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There are slow live CDs and there is fast live CDs.
I have used both.  Puppy loads completely into memory and is fast.  I 
have a ~10 year old laptop which the hard drive finally gave out which 
I am running Puppy to stream audio in my kitchen.  The computer was 
slow, ~250Megs of memory but now running puppy, firefox as well as 
other programs will start just about as fast as I can get my finger off 
of the mouse.

I also am using vmware at work, and Gareth is right, once you install 
vmware's provided drivers on the guest operating system the screen 
resolutions and refresh rates no longer a problem.

On Sat 29 Oct 2011 03:37:19 PM EDT, Gareth Edwards wrote:
> On 29 October 2011 17:52, Kai-Martin<kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>  wrote:
>> On 10/29/2011 05:35:44 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>>
>>> What about a VMWare Player image? (Or the equivalent for VirtualBox.)
>>
>> Last time I checked, virtual machines had no access to hardware
>> acceleration of the graphics card.
>
> VirtualBox and Parallels have both supported hardware 2D and 3D
> acceleration for quite some time. I haven't used VMware for ages but I
> would expect similar support, these guys are all in a virtualization
> arms race.
>
> Gareth
>