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[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 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.

David


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