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November 22nd, 2007, 04:09 AM
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FWIW I am running Suse in VM on a windows machine. I can switch back and forth at will. Anyone else ever try this???
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January 10th, 2008, 05:08 AM
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Yes, I use DSL or freespire in Vmware.
Then there's back-track and some other stuff...
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January 10th, 2008, 05:20 AM
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Yeah, done lots of different OSes with either Virtual PC or VirtualBox. 
The only issue is that it has it shares resources, so a resource intensive OD will make BOTH of the OSes run sluggishly.  So, IMO< best to only run those OSes virtually that you know will use low amounts of system resources.
Good for checking out specific features of alternative OSes, though.
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January 10th, 2008, 03:50 PM
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yup i have 3 linux servers running on one vmware server right now. | |
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January 10th, 2008, 07:33 PM
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I had tremendous slow downs in Virtual PC. I ran VMware and I was like, HOLY CRAP! Way faster! 
I tried installing Virtul Box here on this computer with VMware and didn't work. I think it's because of VMware's services etc. However, I did install it to Vista without a hitch. | |
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January 10th, 2008, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by GroundZero3  yup i have 3 linux servers running on one vmware server right now. | And the cool thing is you can back up the entire VMDK file. | |
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January 10th, 2008, 10:12 PM
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Yup you can make snapshots before you make changes and revert back to the old snapshots if you dont like what it does. Great for making images!! | |
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January 11th, 2008, 12:01 AM
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I am using the beta version of Windows VM and have tried VMWare Player. Can't say I find a speed difference in them. | |
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January 11th, 2008, 12:24 AM
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I commonly virtualize Linux, BSD, SkyOS, ReactOS, Syllable, and various other operating systems for testing and personal interests. VirtualBox, Virtual PC, VMware, QEMU with KQEMU accelerator, etc. - some platforms respond better to certain hardware virtualization implementations.
As of late, I have considered attempting the installation of a Plan 9 distributed computing system across multiple virtualized servers.
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