Thomas Hansen <th@nomail.com> wrote:

> I have a laptop with 1,3GHz Celeron M processor and 512MB RAM. Is this
> configuration "strong" enough to run a workstation with Slackware and
> Windows XP as guest OS in VMWare?

What is 'strong'? If you want to sell speed to someone else, I cannot tell.
But some example from 'real life':

It worked even fine with a 360MHz pentium-ii laptop with 192Mb of RAM
(vmware version 3.x and w2k), when I needed it more often this way. Running
mail and newsgroups in Mozilla would be a bit on the edge, though. Poor
cashing strategy made it necessary to reboot at least once in two days. This
may have been due to w2k or vmware (or both). Linux does not need reboot.

Could as well have running several rather big applications at the same time
in w2k and I could go with it (e.g. one application feeding one serial port,
with an external interface, and a different application picking up the other
end from the interface through serial on PCMCIA, so some modestly rated
real-time work envolved, and at the same time something like Framemaker and
Openoffice to have some specs in view, and so on). Had memory organised
statically, so vmware could claim 92 Mb.