Python under VMware/NT?

[Jim Ovecka]

Thilo Ernst wrote:

> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
>
> > I very briefly ran Linux under NT-native VMware and of course ran
> > Python inside the Linux vm.  Worked fine.  I had the general
> > impression that networking was much slower for the entire OS but spent
> > no time benchmarking or otherwise investigating.  I do plan to play
> > with NT running inside Linux-native VMware pretty soon, but I don't
> > expect it to be all that different than running in native NT.
> >
>
> I could almost repeat Barry's words, just with the OSes reversed. I tried
> some Python stuff on a virtual NT4.0 under Linux-native VMware recently,
> and noticed no severe performance degradations. My Python programs
> weren't network-intensive, though.
>
> The general network performance (i.e. with non-Python apps) is, ahem,
> acceptable, with some (reproducible) exceptions in the "absolutely lousy"
> range. E.g. saving a PowerPoint document to a Samba share on the Linux
> "mother" machine takes AGES as soon as the presentation has more
> than around 10 slides. This is getting off-topic, but ... hints anybody?
> (Perhaps I should simply upgrade to VMware 2.0; still running 1.1)
>
> Nevertheless, by and large I just love having this NT window around in a
> corner  of my KDE desktop. Especially, the setup was great for Python-based
> interoperability experiments I did some months ago, e.g. remote-controlling
> MS-Office apps from Linux via DOPY and the win32 extensions.
>
> Best regards, Thilo

You should use VMware 2.0 and have a large amount of memory 128meg or more.
Networking is some what slower in VMware, but there where some major
improvements in 2.0 . I use RH linux as the host and NT as the guest OS.