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    VMware Player on NP8170

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Rin777, Jun 3, 2011.

  1. Rin777

    Rin777 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Has anyone installed VMWare player on their NP8170's yet? I am thinking about doing it this weekend. It’s free and I want to create A Windows XP (I have extra XP OS and license) virtual machine. I have Windows 7 Home which doesn’t come with Windows XP mode so that’s why I am thinking virtual machine. I want to load older Windows XP software and I feel more comfortable loading it on VM. I would rather mess up a VM then my Windows 7 OS. I have the I7-2820 CPU and 16G of RAM so I should be good hardware wise. So has anyone else done any virtualization on their NP8170 yet?
     
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  2. Atmosk

    Atmosk Notebook Evangelist

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    I use VMware workstation on my NP8130, the only difference functionally between your machine and mine is you have the HM67 chipset while I'm on the HM65, the rest as far as VM use is the same.

    I'd say it does great with VM's, i'm only on 8GB of ram and a mechanical HDD and it's still a great experience running VM's due to the great CPU, you'll barely if at all notice a performance hit while a VM is active, I find myself forgetting I have VM's running when I have them up on a different virtual desktop since I'm used to being able to feel the performance hit thats non-existent here.
     
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  3. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    It should work just fine, I've got the 2720/16GB RAM on my Lotus P150HM. It runs 2 instances of Fedora and 1 of XP just fine with 2GB RAM each. The processor and RAM are more than enough to run multiple virtual machines without issues. Video performance can still be an issue if you're planning on loading up old games or something, but just getting them running in general is not an issue.
     
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    CoderJ Notebook Consultant

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    I'm using VM Player on my 8150; running XP on one for playing with old hardware that doesn't support 64-bit or post-XP and an Ubuntu one I run in Unity (playing with Ruby, mostly, sometimes actual work).

    Runs fine and I've had no issues so far; as Atmosk said I barely even notice either running when I have them up.
     
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