[NTLUG:Discuss] Cheap Linux boxes at Fry's

[Kenneth Loafman]

Robert Pearson wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:57:23PM -0600, Robert Pearson wrote:
>>> On 1/8/07, agoats <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
>>>> That's a good start, but it could be a little more, maybe $450 or so.
>>>>
>>>> Alvin
>>> Anybody running Windows as the host OS on a laptop and VMware over it
>>> with Linux as a VMware client? Seems like when I researched this last,
>>> it would work?
>> I did this for a couple of years and it worked very well, at least
>> with the various versions of Red Hat/Fedora .  Since then I've
>> switched to running Linux as the host OS and VMware over it with
>> Windows as the VMware client.  :-)
>>
>> Pm
> 
> Thanks.
> I guess I should have been more specific.
> Can this be done when Linux and the laptop hardware are incompatible?
> With VMware Server being free this is one way to make a cheap laptop run Linux.
> VMware would translate Linux system calls into Windows equivalents and
> everything would work in Linux.
> This does leave you with the flawed, high Security risk Windows as
> your first line of defense.
> Maybe there is a better way?

Yes, this would work, especially until we get hardware vendors to help 
support Linux.  The earlier VMware versions did not support USB well 
under Linux and I had to use Windows for the USB support.  Linux as 
guest worked as expected.

...Ken