Virtualization questions...

BEN_UK · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:05

Hello,

I have a laptop running win7 pro 64bit with 4Gb RAM and a Intel P7450 2.13Ghz CPU.

I am waiting to mess around with virtualization on the laptop as i carnt afford another computer at the moment

My CPU does not support VT on the CPU.

Is there anyway i can run VMWare ?? i am wanting to virtualization for example server 2008.

Thanks Ben

BruBoy · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:14

VMWare server will run just fine on your setup.

BEN_UK · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:26

Thanks for that downloading now, 507Mb download.

Will i beable to run server 2008 r2 trail in vmware server ??

Thanks Ben

iaind · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:47

Yep it will run fine

BEN_UK · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:56

iaind said:
Yep it will run fine

Great !

I tried with VMWare Player a few weeks back and it wont not working because of no VT CPU support.

So how come the server edition works ???

Many Thanks Ben

iaind · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:59

VT is just an acelleration mechanism - it's fairly recent.

I was running VMware on linux to run Windows 98 apps, back in the late 90s! There definitely was no VT back then

Rwac · 11 Mar 2010 at 22:57

iaind said:
back in the late 90s!

Oof the late late late 90's! Oldschool

BEN_UK · 12 Mar 2010 at 17:55

Thanks for the help.

I am up and running now.

I could not get the 64 bit version of 2008 server running, said my CPU does not support 64 bit lol, strange because i am running win7 64 bit lol

Got the 32 bit server 2008 installed and running as a virtual machine.

Thanks again.

blaineoliver · 12 Mar 2010 at 18:18

You cannot run 64bit virtual machines.

iaind · 12 Mar 2010 at 19:41

Without VT

BruBoy · 15 Mar 2010 at 22:14

Glad to hear you have it running. How's the performance?

BEN_UK · 26 Mar 2010 at 20:38

BruBoy said:
Glad to hear you have it running. How's the performance?

Performace is alright, gave it 1Gb RAM and its happy enough.

Just using it for my 2008 server exams, comes in handy for messing around.