VM

SVS, VMWare, and Portable Apps

SVS www.altiris.com

  1. Some zero-install apps at http://www.svsdownloads.com/
  2. Can install an app on one machine and run it on another. If the app requires activation based on your hardware, you'll have to activate it on multiple machines.

VMWare (and other VMs)

  1. Can run apps installed to an image.
  2. Slow, and really needs more than 1GB RAM and faster than a 1.8GHz mobile Pentium on the PC. Ubuntu is slow, Kubuntu is slow. I still want to try XUbuntu and running Ubuntu non-GUI with a Cygwin X-server.

Tip Sheet

Tips on how to fix/tweak Windows applications and Microsoft Windows

VMWare, VirtualBox, and Virtual PC

Testing VMWare Player 1.0.3, VirtualBox, and Virtual PC 2007...

Time between starting from the text-mode (F8) boot screen.  256MB RAM allocated to VM. Windows 2000 Pro (SP4) guest.  Host Extensions installed in every case.

Seconds before Login prompt displayed:

Safe Mode w/Networking

  • VirtualBox  31 sec
  • VMWare Player 1.0.2 38 sec
  • VMWare Player 2 beta 53 sec
  • Virtual PC 2007

Boot Normally

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