On 27/08/2012 11:24 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> OK, so I'm currently looking for some VM software I can run on my home PC.
>
> At work, I use VMware Workstation. Which works vastly better than
> anything else I've seen, but it's expensive. Really expensive. I just


OK, so today I bought VMware Workstation. Because, hey, I get paid now. ;-)

At work I had VMware Workstation 6.5.4. However, apparently the latest 
version is 9.0.0 - which, as it turns out, looks much more pretty. And 
there's a few minor irritations that are now gone. This is much better! :-D

On the other hand, sadly they /still/ haven't added an option to still 
show disk indicator lights in fullscreen mode. Nor have they added a CPU 
light. There's lights for every other resource, but not CPU. So I 
honestly can't tell if my VM has crashed, or is just compute-bound...

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Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
> On the other hand, sadly they /still/ haven't added an option to still
> show disk indicator lights in fullscreen mode. Nor have they added a CPU
> light. There's lights for every other resource, but not CPU. So I
> honestly can't tell if my VM has crashed, or is just compute-bound...

What would be the difference to check how much CPU the Vmware 
Workstation's process is using?

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On 15/10/2012 04:22 PM, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, sadly they /still/ haven't added an option to still
>> show disk indicator lights in fullscreen mode. Nor have they added a CPU
>> light. There's lights for every other resource, but not CPU. So I
>> honestly can't tell if my VM has crashed, or is just compute-bound...
>
> What would be the difference to check how much CPU the Vmware
> Workstation's process is using?

It's just annoying having to constantly flick between the VMware window 
and the Process Explorer window to try to see what the thing is doing. 
By contrast, disk and network activity are nicely displayed right there. 
(Unless it's in full-screen mode...)

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Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
> It's just annoying having to constantly flick between the VMware window
> and the Process Explorer window to try to see what the thing is doing.
> By contrast, disk and network activity are nicely displayed right there.
> (Unless it's in full-screen mode...)
>

Well yes, that's true. OTOH you could finally buy yourself also a decent 
monitor and put those 2 windows side by side ;).

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On 15/10/2012 06:28 PM, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>> It's just annoying having to constantly flick between the VMware window
>> and the Process Explorer window to try to see what the thing is doing.
>> By contrast, disk and network activity are nicely displayed right there.
>> (Unless it's in full-screen mode...)
>>
>
> Well yes, that's true. OTOH you could finally buy yourself also a decent
> monitor and put those 2 windows side by side ;).

Not unless I also buy myself a bigger desk to put them on, and maybe a 
bigger room to fit the bigger desk into. ;-)

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Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
> Not unless I also buy myself a bigger desk to put them on, and maybe a
> bigger room to fit the bigger desk into. ;-)

That's not a bad plan. But don't hold your breath, it might take couple 
of months ;).

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Le 16/10/2012 16:22, Eero Ahonen a écrit :
> Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>
>> Not unless I also buy myself a bigger desk to put them on, and maybe a
>> bigger room to fit the bigger desk into. ;-)
> 
> That's not a bad plan. But don't hold your breath, it might take couple
> of months ;).


You're thinking too small.
Screen / Desk / Room... what about House instead ?
Make your day, buy a city!

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