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If you have installed VMplayer but it seems almost dead, taking
a very long time to do anything, it's because you don't have
enough physical memory in your machine. Although it will run
in a machine with 512MB of memory, it runs slowly because it
is paging stuff back and forth to the hard drive. Add more RAM
to bring the machine's memory up to at least 1GB and preferably
more to solve this. When there is enough memory, VMplayer can
emulate a machine running Windows XP or Windows Vista at an acceptable
speed.
Note: VMplayer is free software from VMware to let you run a pretend ("virtual")
PC on your real PC. Like any other PC, you need to install Windows
before it can be used, but once installed, you then have another
machine. The screen, keyboard, and mouse are shared with your
real machine. Why would you want a virtual PC? It's useful for
testing out new software. Since you install the software on the
virtual PC, the registry and hard drive of your real machine
are not affected at all. Some software pollutes your system with
crap that stays even after the software has been uninstalled.
Running that software on a virtual PC means your own system remains
clean. And if you have problems with the virtual PC, you can
simply erase it and start again.
23 April 2007
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