There's a difference between someone who is paid to participate in a community forum versus someone who so happens to work for a tech company, is a member of a community, and makes it public that said person works for said company.
I've personally never spoken with lopoetve, but as a long time...
It's the motherboard that you need to worry about for VMDP (and a little bit on the CPU, e.g. i3 doesn't support VT-d). If your motherboard can't do Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi then you can't do passthrough.
I'm pretty sure he/she means running Windows apps in a Linux environment. It's called Unity Mode and it's only in Workstation/Fusion from the VMware side.
Actually, it's available at the cost of tuition :P
I got my copy as well from MSDNAA and three additional keys for fun :D I am also waiting for 2008 R2 to be posted. Sadly, my MSDNAA admin has no idea when that will be D:
:P
I've noticed that using speed testers on the campus connection is unreliable because in my experience it depends on what type of traffic is passing through that will determine how much you can burst.
IIRC, all you have to do is unmount/remove the floppy drive from your VM settings. You'll notice when you create Windows VMs there's a mounted floppy image called "automate.flp" or along those lines. It's been awhile since I've used VMware Workstation and I don't have it installed at this moment...
Off topic, but what is the "IOIOI" port? A quick Google says it's for serial connections but I can't think of a scenario in my head right now when it would be used.
Wow this is already coming up? I was thinking about participating but my schools application deadline for the team was the same night I learned about it. -_-
Actually I just checked, my region already finished on March 1.