I don't understand the desire to run GBPVR under VMWare other than the "because its there" idea since you still need a license for Windows. If you wanted GBPVR, Linux and VMWare together you would be much smarter to host VMWare on Windows and then run Linux as the virtual machine.
My early reasons for running gbpvr under vmware were:-
(1) to enable both server and client to run on the same physical machine. This was purely for space and time saving when trying to set a client up to see how it worked. and
(2) When I was single server, to run a newer version without upsetting the existing installation.
I've been doing things like that for years in Netware environments and feel comfortable with it. Graphic and hardware intensive things don't work well under VM's though.
Originally I was running Linux becauce it is far more stable and has much less bugs than windows. But since the majority of programs that I like runs only under windows and running windows under wmware in a linux environment slows things down I switched to windows on all my pc's.
Now, testing gbpvr under linus/wmware for me is just a "let's see if it works" task. Not meaning to offend anyone who loves windows :p
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
Believe me you aren't offending me (as a linux user), I was only making a suggestion that would work rather than wasting your time. It will work as a server but than you need a second Windows machine as a client, and you will end up with a limited set of capture cards you can use.
As for stability I find Vista every bit as as stable as any system I've ever build. , many Linux people still live in the past. I just don't like paying for Windows if it was free I would use it on more of my machines even always on servers.
I don't use server/client setup, just a single installation. About wasting time: Testing new things and ideas is never a waste of time, and if it doesn't work, you'll know that, at least
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
Linux version?!
