X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <013801c6956f$dbf47f60$2da8a8c0@akira> From: "Brian Bruns" To: "Cygwin Mailing List" References: Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin Release 5 month old... Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:18:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.154.67.14 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: bruns@2mbit.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:14 PM [EST], Charli Li wrote: > > VMWare player is only for *PLAYING* VMWare files. In order to set a > VM up you gotta get VMWare Desktop or VMWare Server, like I have here > on my box. Plus, VMs are much, much slower than normal boxes so it's > not really a red herring if you can't even install the OS on the VM! > For example, I couldn't even get Windows 2000 Server on the VM to > even initilize the text-mode setup program (WINNT.EXE)! Easy way to fix that. VMX Builder: http://petruska.stardock.net/Software/VMware.html http://petruska.stardock.net/Software/Files/VMXBuilderSetup.exe Will build the player files for you with the hardware/settings you want. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/