VMWare again

[Jack Daniel]

I think the flexibility to create VMs locally, take snapshots and modify VM
configurations is generally worth the added resources that Server requires.

To minimize the performance impact, I have a couple of batch files on my
Windows hosts that run VMWare- one to start all the necessary services and
another to stop them.  Unless the machine will always be running a VM, I
change the VM services to "manual" instead of automatic start and just
launch them when needed.

Maybe the XenSource folks will have a better answer for you on Wednesday-

Jack


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Shields [mailto:mattboston-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:13 AM
> To: Jerry Feldman
> Cc: discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: VMWare again
> 
> 
> Why not do the opposite.  Install linux host with vmware 
> player and winxp guest?
> 
> -matt
> 
> On 8/13/07, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > For reasons that my wife must have Windows XP, I will be installing
> > Windows XP this evening. (Actually, someone else will 
> install it for me
> > since I don't have a copy). I then plan to install either 
> VMWare Player
> > of VMWare server and install Ubuntu as a guest OS initially, and
> > possibly Gentoo as another guest or to replace Ubuntu.
> >
> > Both Player and Server should work in this context, but my 
> thought is
> > I'll get better performance out of Player. Any thoughts on this?
> >
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> > Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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