Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-19 Thread Tim Sailer
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 09:22:07PM -0400, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > www.virtualbox.org +1 on virtualbox. Although I am VMWare certified and use all their products, for my own development platform on my laptop, I use virtualbox. It just works. And, you can push images from virtualbox back and forth wi

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-19 Thread David Krings
Michael B Allen wrote: That is not my experience. I have 4-5 Windows and Linux guests running at the same time in VMWare Server on cheap desktop grade boxes running Linux. As long as you have a lot of memory (4 GB is good) and you install VMWare Tools on the Windows guests, VMWare Server perform

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, David Krings wrote: > Konstantin K wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >>   I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my >> windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and run >> various services on it like apache and procmail...

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread David Krings
Hans Zaunere wrote: And then the Download VMware ESXi free link in the right column. Basically, anything they offer for free will do what you need for basic stuff. ESXi as well as ESX are bare metal hypervisors, so you cannot run them on top of Windope. If you look for bare metal, use Citrix.

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread David Krings
Konstantin K wrote: Hi guys, I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and run various services on it like apache and procmail... I know these tools (apache and procmail) are available for wind

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread Konstantin K
you guys are great. thanks for the quick responses and good suggestions!! Konstantin On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Konstantin K wrote: > Hi guys, > > > I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my > windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it,

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Konstantin K wrote: > Hi guys, > > > I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my > windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and run > various services on it like apache and procmail... > > I know these tools (apa

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread Hans Zaunere
Hi, > I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on > my windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and > run various services on it like apache and procmail... > > I know these tools (apache and procmail) are available for windows, but > I *need* a l

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread Mutaz Musa
Check out VirtualBox, opensource and corporate backed (Sun Microsystems): http://www.virtualbox.org/ On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Konstantin K wrote: > Hi guys, > > > I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my > windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread Eddie Drapkin
www.virtualbox.org On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Konstantin K wrote: > Hi guys, > > > I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my > windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and run > various services on it like apache and procmail... > > I k