Virtual PC From MS

I like both vmware and VPC, both are good for different reasons. Currently i have DOS 6.22, windows 3.11, 95, 98, xp, 2003, longhorn and home server using VPC and a virtual domain on another box which is running vmware :)
 
i found virtual pc to be very slow on my pc. installing windows inside the guest went along at a crawl and it also impacted performance on my host pc???? very strange as i would have though if anybody could optimise performance it would be microsoft. :confused:

vmware is good but i actually prefer virtual box now as well. it's damn good. certainly very quick when installing guest operating systems. :)
 
You can make a bootable version of VMware on a CD/DVD, and run a compressed virtual machine, perhaps using copy-on-write storage, storing your persistent changes on a USB stick or SAN. (I've done it) Great for disaster recovery, just store your VM's on network accessible storage (iSCSI, ATAoE, or even SMB/CIFS) and if a machine blows up, just netboot another machine with a vmware livecd image and boot that VM back up, no messing about with hardware changes.

I'd like to see Microsoft ever do something as close to doing that ;)

VMware Server benefits
* faster than VirtualPC (copy-on-write page migration, custom guest drivers with lower overhead)
* Native filesharing on Linux guests (drag-n-drop)
* USB and SCSI passthrough, connect any SCSI/USB device directly into your VM with no wrapper.
* Scripting API
* Network console access/control (via VNC protocol)
* official Linux, FreeBSD and Netware support

VPC benefits
* hmm.....
* well, you get 'official support' from Microsoft for Exchange 2003 when running under VPC. Now my experience of 'official support' from MS hasn't exactly been gleaming, and it runs perfectly under VMware, but hey.
 
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gareth170 said:
try using virtualbox... u may like it more then vmwre
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Does virtualbox run happily under Vista do you know? Currently I'm running my vm's under vmware on linux and that box is filling up to capacity (testing, dev/programming)..
 
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riddlermarc said:
Does virtualboz run happily under Vista do you know? Currently I'm running my vm's under vmware on linux and that box is filling up to capacity (testing, dev/programming)..
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yes it does... im running vista...
 
riddlermarc said:
Does virtualbox run happily under Vista do you know? Currently I'm running my vm's under vmware on linux and that box is filling up to capacity (testing, dev/programming)..
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yes it does. that's the main reason i tried it in the first place. :)

edit: beaten. :p
 
Thanks for the reply guys, my research skillz are a little slow;) I checked out the website, looks pretty good.. might give it a go when I rebuild my box tomorrow :)
 
riddlermarc said:
Thanks for the reply guys, my research skillz are a little slow;) I checked out the website, looks pretty good.. might give it a go when I rebuild my box tomorrow :)
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if your running it under vista its better if u have at least 2gb of ram...
 
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