Re: WDSC in a VM (was You wanna talk about POed... )

[Brian <system.i.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arco,

Thanks for the correction! I'll have to walk down the hall and have a talk
with our Windows guy since he was the source for my mis-information. I've
recently started playing with VMWare at home as a learning experience but
I've only loaded server OSs since that's how we use it here.

Thanks again,

BJ

On 3/13/07, Arco Simonse <arcosimonse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >you cannot create a VM for a Windows desktop OS using the free>VMWare
> Server; It can host the VM but it cannot create it. To create a VM>for a
> Windows desktop OS you will need to purchase one of the>non-free VMWare
> products like VMWare Workstation.
>
> This is not true. I use the free VMWare server with XP Pro for testing
> environments. You can create VM's for a wide range of operating systems. For
> Windows it goes from Windows 3.1 to Vista x64 and Server 2003 x64.
> I have used the VM's with an XP Pro installation and WDSc, and it just
> runs fine in a VM, but you have to be carefull with memory allocation. Your
> VM host has to have plenty of memory that you can allocate to the VM guest,
> or else it will swap too much and you'll become a very bad performance.
>
> Best regards,
> Arco Simonse