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 performs just fine.
I was comparing it to Citrix, which is easily a 1/3rd faster on the same hardware. I use VMWare Server and it works, I like especially that I can connect to VMs and manage the system using a browser, but the quality of the admin interface is IMHO plain horrible like all the other admin tool from VMWare. Slow and crashy. For example on ESX I use third party tools for the most important tasks such as file copying. At work we decided to dicth ESX and go with Citrix, much faster and costs less. And yes, without VMWare tools the VMs are useless. Since the request was for 'laptop' virtualization I'd give VirtualBox a try first. If that doesn't pan out try VMWare Server.
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