Ah I hadnt seen that product before. Whats it like on memory resources ? Vmware is pretty good if you want to run a lot of VMs and a cpu intensive DC project. Be interesting to see how it performs.
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Ah I hadnt seen that product before. Whats it like on memory resources ? Vmware is pretty good if you want to run a lot of VMs and a cpu intensive DC project. Be interesting to see how it performs.
This is a rough estimate... I have 2 GB of RAM in my rig... sitting at the desktop Commit Charge was 259M. I have two VM's running now, each with 512 MB reserved for them. Now Commit Charge is 1315M. Subtract 1024 for the RAM reserved for the VM's and the 259 that was in use before loading up the VM's and that leaves about 32 MB being used by Virtual Server 2005.
James if you want VPC, i have it.
Thanks for the offer Haltech but I have it somewhere I think.
MS VPC or server for that matter are not exactly the fastest out there. VMwares virtualization is at least 2 years ahead of the competition. Google that info it is readily out there. Also from what I have heard it is not as user friendly but that is up to debate and preferences.
If you are lookng to run multiple VMs Vmware server is your best bet. It is free now and is more geared for server use. I recommend using a low footprint OS like a nlited windows or Damn Small Linux or even ubuntu to run the VMware server. This should provide a dramatic increase in performance.
I see a lot of glossing over exactly which package from vmware.c0m is needed. Currently available are VMPlayer (free, but seems it can only run pre-made proprietary images), VMWare Server 1.0.2 (free), & VMWare Workstation 6 (30-day).
Which one(s) will work for at least 10 VMs?
DeXter::2xXeon2.4@3200, GF6800, PC-DL, 1gb Centon, IWT+panaflo air, Win7
Quad::Q6600(g0)@3400(1.30V), GTX275, 965P-DS3, 4gb HyperX, Asus SilentSquare (air), Win7_64U
NuQuad::Q9400@3300(1.24V), 8800GT, G31M-ES2L, 2gb Patriot, stock air (bigger Q6600 one), WinXP64
Crunch::E4300@2400, onboard, GF7100PVT-M3, 2gb Patriot CL5, stock air, Vista64U
Workstation will allow you to create VMs that can be saved to run with VMplayer, as will VMware server. Workstation also allows you to clone the VMs which saves time when creating a VM farm. The downside is that you will need to buy it after 30 days. VMware server will allow you to create the VMs and manage them for free.
So both workstation and server will do what you require. Both will run in windows and linux. In fact you can download server direct into ubuntu using add remove programs.
Workstation also allows you create Teams, with Server you can specify VMs to start automatically when you launch VMWare but can't create Teams.
Can anybody suggest me which VM to use? VMware is not free. I'm playing with VirtualBox right now, but I can't make it autostart. Where should I go now? Virtual PC? QEMU? Something else?
BTW 32 MB is more than enough for XP.
I'm considering dropping it to 24-26.
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