Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>         the sucky part of VMware is that games that use DirectX won't work
> on it. :( so you need a separate box to play Diablo 2 on. :(
> 
D'oh!  There goes my idea of playing a lot of really cool Windows games
on the stability of Linux.  Oh well, still be good to play around with
WMWare/Win4Lin/Wine and see what trouble I get into.

>         I use it at work for development environments; so I can maintain a
> clean environment to work with. best trick that VMWare allows you to do:
> 1. install your OS and apps
> 2. shut it down
> 3. tar & bz2 all the files in the appropriate VMware subdirectory
> (all 4 of them.. nice and simple).
> 4. when your original install gets too crufty, blow it away and untar your
> saved disk image. :)
> 

Sorta like a Ghost image then.  Cool none the less, far better than
reloading the whole system over again.


Shawn