Re: Win7, Linux, Virtualization -- PCTECH

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I thought 16gb was lots of memory! Still, I doubt if I'll be doing anything close to what you seem to be up to.

ESX looks like it is more than I need. If I did that, could I go back to Win 7 as the host OS?

Sam

On 11/30/2012 6:58 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

I use VmWare Workstation extensively. (i7 box with 32GB RAM, 2TB disk)
and routinely have five or six clients running at one time, each with a
separate VPN into other networks. (Fusion on the MAC workstation as
well, that actually works better than the Win7 version does) Both
Workstation and Fusion cost some money but it's worth it in the end.

It would be very simple to create the environment your describing. In
my case the base OS is Win7 with workstation loaded on top.

You might also consider that ESX is free for use on a system with 32GB
of memory or less. Use ESX as the base OS and load the VMs as needed. I
have that running on a more beefy machine and it does Active Directory,
Exchange, several copies of Linux, and soon SharePoint.

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