Glonoinha's Journal: VMware 4.5 is an awesome upgrade from 4.0

Well for those of you following the saga of Linux in VMware on a Windows host, it continues. I upgraded to VMware 4.5 from 4.0 and I have to say it was well worth the upgrade. Two massive improvements : it lets you use up to 4G of memory for your virtual machines (up from the 1G in v4.0), and the drivers and performance for Linux (RH 9) are a lot better.

Before I was doing it, but I wasn't digging it. Now - I'm digging it. RedHat screams now - it is easily as comfortable to use (fast too) as the native Windows host OS.

If you are doing the VM thing, go get the upgrade.

drag and drop

[Mantorp]

I've heard that works pretty well too, can you confirm? (from your native OS to your virtual I mean)

Re:drag and drop

[Glonoinha]

I have been using the drag and drop in VMware 4.0 with a Windows XP host OS and Windows 2000 Guest OS and it works NICE!

I just tried it with my RH Linux 9 guest OS and ... no worky. I'm not 100% sure I am running the VMware tools in the Linux VM, but in this specific instance it didn't work. Back to FTP or Samba. Actually, easily getting files back and forth from my Linux guest to the WinXP host is one of the last quirks I haven't worked out (I just FTP stuff out to my ISP, then FTP it back - yea, it's