I'm running vmware server on suse on my work machine - athlon64 with 2gig of ram. We have a couple of "windows only" applications that there is no feasible way of moving away from, when i need to use them I run them in an XP virtual machine. plenty of ram is very important. boot time is a little slower as vmware server is booting the xp machine for me during the latter part of the suse boot process (the virtual machine is immediately available to log on to as soon as my suse desktop is loaded if i log on as soon as possible). both the host and guest machines are very usable with no noticeable performance issues. the entire setup has been very stable following resolving a couple of hardware faults (new gear sometimes goes bad quickly and i had some very bad luck... )
of course, either would be faster running alone, however I am totally used to the performance and find both more than adequate. if i turn on a second guest running vista at the same time as xp, there is a noticeable performance hit. no surprise there, vista and xp would have to be the 2 biggest resource hogs around... the thing though is that i could easily delete the xp host installation, i only ever use it now on the day after patch tuesday and update the antivirus subscription, it stays on the machine just in case i trash the linux install somehow. next time i have spare time at work and want to check out a different distro, it will be in a virtual machine. i'm sold on the idea. there are heaps of possibilities with virtualisation. sorry, can't give you any specific stats right now, i'll have a look at top in the morning and reply to my own post! Roger Reg wrote: > Ah great thanks, I ended up with the window maximized and could not find my > way back. Lost in a virtual machine I was. I think I saw a movie something > like that once LOL. Once un-maximized it even actually starts a message > telling you those key combos you just said. > > So the performance loss, has anyone ever measured it in someway? I mean is > it twice as slow or just so small it matters little on a modern machine? > > Regards > Reg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Col [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 23 August 2006 7:16 p.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Subject: Re: Vmware Player & PC-BSD > > Hi Reg > > (I'm using a Linux host so hopefully it's the same.) > > To enter a virtual machine either click on it or CTRL-G. > To exit a Virtual machine CTRL-ALT. > > And yes there is a performance loss. > > > Col. > > > >
