And, if you do not have a 7200 RPM hard drive, you may want to invest in one. I upgraded the drive in the Mac to a 7200 RPM drive and it made a huge difference with the VMs.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:334811 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
