> I hear VMWare is very fast because they have a very slim > version of Linux running. It's fast not because it's Linux, > but because they took out every bell and whistle that they > could and make it so it only ran what was needed to run > virtualization. Microsoft on the other hand has the full > bloat of running Windows Server. YMMV.
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