Windows in a window where it belongs.
I know I gave up my hatred for windows but after having it installed on my desktop for a week I’ve decided that it needs to be put in it’s place. Today I succeeded in installing ubuntu linux, vmware, and windows xp. Now windows is in a window where it belongs. It’s so nice to be able to reboot windows without disrupting my work. With the vmware drivers installed it actually performs very well. The response time is better than vnc to an equally powerful machine. I ran into a few swapping issues when compiling and playing music engine but that’s due to only having 512mb ram on this box. Still it’s much better than wasting hardware on a mostly idle windows box just for music engine.
[update: 6-5-2005 After upgrading this box to 2G ram all the swapping issues are resolved.]
[update: 6-5-2005 With the vmware data files in the vfs cache it takes about 15 seconds to boot windows.]