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Hi All,

Just a quick question, i'm going to be running Virtual PC very soon as i'm just starting the 70-290 and i'm wondering if i do through RAM at my current machine will it suffice? I'll be setting up the lab shown in the sticky at the top of this

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2,17 GHz
RAM: Will have 4gb
HDD: 80gb spare, ide running at 7200rpm
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon (old) 512mb

I don't use the machine much, apart from for MS Office & surfing the net - no gaming.

Things are tight at the minute so i really need to keep costs down to a minimum, and don't really want to buy a new machine just to run Virtual PC.

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You should be fine, I would limit your lab to a Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 and XP Pro connecting into this.

Set the VP to give 512MB each to the Server and XP.

I would advise using XP as the platform on your own Desktop to run the VP's.

Hope this helps!

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You should be fine, I would limit your lab to a Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 and XP Pro connecting into this.

Set the VP to give 512MB each to the Server and XP.

I would advise using XP as the platform on your own Desktop to run the VP's.

Hope this helps!
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Yep! agree with what Craig says as I would have advice the same method.

 
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You should be fine, I would limit your lab to a Server 2003 Enterprise Edition R2 and XP Pro connecting into this.

Set the VP to give 512MB each to the Server and XP.

I would advise using XP as the platform on your own Desktop to run the VP's.

Hope this helps!
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Exactly what I've just set up and for the same exam !

 
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Thats great - exactly what i wanted to hear!

I'm already running XP on my desktop so there'll be no change there.

Thanks guys, just need to find some RAM now!

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