My Mac has 6GB of RAM and there have been times I have needed 2 VMs open at the same time and it slowed machine down considerably.
If your machine can take more memory, it might be a worthwhile investment to upgrade. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > > If its slow its fine, I need laptop to take with me to show why I say what I > do since people don't get powerpoint slides or ask too many questions and > now I can show first hand and get the yes/no answer. > > How much RAM are you working with? The vendor that had a laptop had 4gb but > was running XP/VMWARE and XP in all their scenarios. Their software server > piece was java so it would run under any OS basically. Low overhead. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:45 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: virtual machines > > > I use VMWWare Fusion on my Mac and VMWare Workstation on my Windows laptop. > > Both work great and I have not really had any issues (except for a few > connectivity issues between VM and host on Mac - but that seemed to be > resolved in an update quite a while ago). > > My only concern in your case is that if you are going to be running > multiple VM's at one time, 6GB of RAM might not be adequate enough. > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Scott Raley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Okay I need honest opinions here. I've got 5 dev laptops that I'm going to >> wipe because I'm tired of spinning around all day while testing software >> since some is production, some are new betas etc and they can't exist on > the >> same machine. Well some can but then I have to keep track of ports being >> used by each piece to not cause conflicts. >> >> >> >> I just got a brand new 64 bit laptop with 6gig of memory and want to setup > a >> machine that can do virtual machines so if its ubuntu like everyone talks >> about I can run two windows 7 sessions if I need to or a windows server > and >> xp session or whatever combination. >> >> >> >> I know one vendor I'm working with is using VMWare to do this and told me > to >> get that. >> >> >> >> What say you? >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334810 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
