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