On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09, Vijay Sankar <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was running three instances of Windows 2000 Server and one Windows 2003 > server on a Dell 2900 -- two IIS servers, and two SQL Servers for testing > purposes a while ago. Here is some info on how I was doing it at that time > -- >
> Each vm guest was started with a command similar to the following: > > sudo env ETHER=bnx1 qemu \ > -net nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139,macaddr=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:XX \ > -net tap,vlan=0 -m 384 -no-fd-bootchk -localtime \ > -hda whatever.img -nographic > > XX was F1, F2, F3, and F4 w2k3, w2k, appint and appext images respectively > > I used nographic because it was easier to use rdesktop and rdp from other > systems to access the vm guests instead of being at the console. > Do you notice any performance gains by running them like this? I'm running one instance of XP on a dual-core box with 4GB of RAM, and it's slow as hell. I'd try running Windows 7, but the ACPI fails, and I can't allocate 1GB of RAM with the version we have in ports to do the initial install.
