Virtual Machine...

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I want to set my desktop up at home to be used as a Virtual Machine.

I guess I need an O/S on it first before I can use VMWave or Virtual PC?

Which software would be best to use?

I am looking to use XP, Vista, W7, 2k3 and Linux.

Any thoughts / suggestions?

 

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I was using Windows 2003 Server Enterprise edition last week with Virtual PC. Had 8Gb and worked a dream. As far as im aware you can get a free edition of VMware but if your doing exams its worth using Virtual PC

 

I've used vmware on pc's running both XP and Vista (with 4 Gigs) and never had any issues.

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4 Gig of Ram or 4 gig of Hard Disk space?

I arent doing exams for VMWare, just want to have multiple o/s' on my pc..

 

The pc I used had 4 Gig of ram installed.

VmWare workstation is another piece of software, like VirtualPc, that enables you to install multiple os's in a virtual environment - except that it isn't free.

NB

 

I personally prefer VMWare Workstation. Just seems to perform better than the free VMWare server and Virtual PC.

Currently running 8 servers plus the host on a Intel quad core, 8GB ram and 4 disk raid 10 array for the storage. Host OS (2008 R2) runs off a separate raid 1 array and a 1 TB disk for videos etc.

I would have used Hyper V but I need it to play games too