On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, David Krings <ram...@gmx.net> 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... >> I know these tools (apache and procmail) are available for windows, but I >> *need* a linux instance on my laptop as a virtual machine.... >> Any suggestions for this? >> I went to the VMWare site and couldn't figure out which product I needed >> - they seem to have 4000 products...Any ideas? >> > > Well, you can use VMWare Server, but unless you have beefy machine it will > be slow (as anything from VMWare). I use VMWare Server at work and while it > is of the typical not so great VMWare quality it works for me. You might > want to take a look as well at VirtualBox. Other than that, Microsoft's > VirtualPC is another option, but from my experience VPC is at the bottom of > the trash can when it comes for desktop virtualization.
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 performs just fine. Mike -- Michael B Allen Java Active Directory Integration http://www.ioplex.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
