Re: Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

I use VirtualBox, and it "feels" a lot faster and less intrusive (in the host OS) than VirtualPC and VMWare.

http://www.virtualbox.org

HTH,

Peter Colpaert
Software Engineer, Philips Consumer Luminaires

Industrieterrein Satenrozen 11, 2550 Kontich, Belgium
Tel. +32/ 3 450 74 09, Fax +32/ 3 450 74 33, Internal 1317
peter.colpaert@xxxxxxxxxxx, www.philips.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: woensdag 18 maart 2009 14:28
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Windows Vista (puke) and Windows Server 2008

Shannon ODonnell wrote:

Interesting idea...I used VMWare once, briefly, and found it to be

fairly

simple and performance was good too, if I remember correctly.

I agree with Joe ... VMWare is a godsend for me in general.

The only problem I have with VMWare is that the performance isn't great
for the guest OS. I've only used the free versions of VMWare though,
so the enterprise versions might be different.

david

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