Virtulization Software

[Flammable]

Does any recommend any ones? How does it work? I'm wondering if you can minimize it and run several ones within. I just need to open an IE browser and program.

 

[tfinch2]

Try all the free ones: MS Virtual PC 2004, VMWare Player, and a few of the open source ones.

How does it work? Check out a book on virtual machines from your local library. Interesting stuff.

 

[her209]

Wrong forum.

 

[GhettoFob]

VMware Server

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What runs more efficiently? VMware Player or Microsoft VirtualPC?

 

[RichieZ]

Parallels, but then you need a intel based mac

 

[jlbenedict]

Free:

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

VMware Server 1.0.2

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
What runs more efficiently? VMware Player or Microsoft VirtualPC?

VMware has better resource management

 

[Elbryn]

if you're running out of windows, i dont think it really matters. they all will eat up resources and generally be inefficient 8) move to vmware esx3 with a VT/pacifica cpu and overhead is only 3%!

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: Elbryn
if you're running out of windows, i dont think it really matters. they all will eat up resources and generally be inefficient 8) move to vmware esx3 with a VT/pacifica cpu and overhead is only 3%!

if you can send me some money, i would.

i use VMware Server 1.02, running an AD server in there. I have 4GB RAM running XP x64 as the host so it's good enough.

btw, anyone know how to configure a Virtual Machine to use more than 2 cores in VMware server? at work we have a 2xdual core xeon setup but VMware can only use up to 2 cores for each virtual machine and no way to specify which core to use

 

[yinan]

It doesnt really benefit any to really mess with VMwares scheduling.