There are several examples of Windows running better under VMware than natively.
I had Windows server with Exchange and 10.000 users under VMware under Linux and it ran much better than the same machine running Windows native. Not to mention the ease of servicing the VM machine and then moving it to new hardware without any problems. 2010/2/15 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>: > While I was on a business trip in China last month, my Lenovo T61 broke down. > > My wife got it working but since I was a "Visitor" in her factory, she could > not supply me with a replacement unit. So what I did was "cloned" my Windows > XP Pro system using "VMware vCenter Converter" and got a trial version of > VMware Fusion and run the whole thing on my MacBook. > > Now I'm back in Manila and our IT already returned the fixed machine to me > (I'm using it now). The thing is, once I start-up a local MS-Office > 2007+MS-SQL Server 2005 + IIS + Visual Studio .NET 2005 ... the whole thing > slows down. I can literally compare how better the performance of the > virtualized OS on my Mac over the actual machine with both Windows using 1GB > RAM. Once I give the virtual machine more memory (like 2GB) ... it stops > being a contest, the virtual machine will work better with the same software > load. > > It is very unfortunate that the company requires me to lug around my Lenovo > ... if not, I'll be exclusively using my MacBook with the virtualized Windows. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
