From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Sun Apr 10 09:29:35 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3AETZ8V032697 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:29:35 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3AETZem032693 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:29:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 399F393C31; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 08:27:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31341-08; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 08:27:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id A77C793C4B; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 08:27:26 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=LfHZZ41XfXgu1yOI4zckkdNaVDBQoQDCtjn/Pv4X5Xdmr8XyGkUCmL1a96PU2WkVxvETbFBc/z36JrhEzWp1GVmNZMv85Iy5M5uyQH92EoWRWRzUWnOP0+4GsssVOhrf3VX+dN944ATpVr3BcVZglScgyxeE/mHfZwzeRI1DrR4= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:25:40 -0400 From: mhthomas To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: Re: OT: VMware Workstation v5 released In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: X-archive-position: 18262 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: qnxodba@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: qnxodba@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: On Apr 9, 2005 1:35 PM, mhthomas wrote: > http://www.vmware.com/download/workstation.html > http://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/VMware-workstation-5.0.0-13124.exe > > Enjoy :-) > I don't know how they do it in v5. My first test: I'm running a 1gig guest database (10g RAC/ASM on RHEL3) and my laptop reports less than 200MB total RAM consumed while running XPSP1 host. Not possible? Its great because I do not have to tweak the guest to less that 1gig just to run on the laptop. Also, suspend now takes less than 5 seconds. I'm really curious what is going on with RAM. I suspect they are swapping to disk but even so it does not make sense to use so little RAM. Maybe they are hiding it some other way on XP host. I don't know. Regards, Mike Thomas -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l