SO I've been told not to trust IBM...lets use my RAID hardware for something else....

[Goosemaster]

Obviously, if you read my last thread, using my IBM drive in RAID is out, so I will default to my two MAXTOR 8GB 5400rpm's



My question is this: Do I have enough hardware to run TWO OS's simultaneously?


Here is the Machine: An HP Vectra Vli8 that I supped up a little

Intel PIII 700 700MHz
512 MB of IBM/ Crucial 2 PC133 Stick
Matrox MG200 onboard (MG200)
2x Maxtor 8.0 GB @ 5400 RPMS in RAID0




Would this pc be able to reasonably run Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Gentoo Linux 1.4 at the same time using VMWare each using 256MB of memory.

Most likely, the uses will include:

Game servers
Webserver
FTP
VPN
Gentoo as a remote desktop etc...





Advanced Server night not be as necessary so it might be the one in use through VMWare...webmail, QoS etc.



So could I pull it off?

 

[Goosemaster]

anyone?

 

[Snoop]

Intel PIII 700 700MHz

Thats fairly weak for JUST a game server, depending on the game.

 

[glugglug]

32MB is overkill for Linux even with X-server running, let alone 256MB.

Windows needs all it can get.

Also, the games will require Windows running natively instead of in VMWare to get Direct3D support.

VMWare will run impressively well and actually detects when the virtual machine is idle & stops using up CPU time.

As others have said though, the PIII 700 is pretty weak and you'll probably want better for the games. Running Linux under VMWare at the same time won't add enough load to really be an issue.

One other thing that shocked me about VMWare: Your router will actually see the virtual machine as a separate machine with it's own ethernet MAC address.