What do you use your virtual machine for??

Phil2008

Phil2008

Phil2008

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Ive just been having a mess around with 1, installed xp, and I can only see myself using it to test software on before installing it on my main OS.
 
My test lab running on my ML115 G5 Server.

- MS Windows 2003 Server (Domain Controller, AD, DNS)
- MS Windows 2003 Server (AD Replication, Exchange 2003)
- MS Windows XP Pro (Client for connecting to Servers)

- MS Windows Media Center (Was used for sharing media to PS3)
- SuSE 11.1 (Testing for future use on networks)
 
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I have a Centos DC running VMware virtual server with a virtual FreeNAS supporting the network.

I also have a windows 7 to play with, a ubuntu to play with, and a XP Pro that I like to infect with viruses and watch the effect, lol.
 
Just tried to install vista and win7, but both came up with this error....... any ideas???

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^ Latest version of VMware?

If so possibly try downgrading. Looks like it's emulating your hardware incorrectly.

I'm currently running vmware on my main rig for my final year project at university.

1 x Win2k3 DC, 1 x Web Server, 1 x SQL, 1 x Exchange and 2 x workstations.

My server downstairs has a virtual box running dedicated to SQL and Web Server our mini intranet and test applications.

Other than that as suggested above testing is a good reason, and also trialling any beta MS software.

When I get some i'll delve back into linux too :)

Very handy..! Something to use the RAM ;-)
 
Phil2008 said:
well Ive just tried my old vista 32bit, and that installs fine, so theres something wrong with the 64bit stuff???
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I haven't used VMware for a while (use VirtualBox these days), but do you have the option to enable IO APIC and VT-x (hardware virtualisation) in the virtual machine's properties? It's necessary for 64-bit guests in VirtualBox, so maybe in VMware also... ?
 
Running VMWare Workstation on Vista so I can run Fedora. That in turn runs TinyProxy so my mate in Spain can use the iPlayer through my Internet connection.
 
Testing purposes mainly.

I have a testbed corporate enviroment across a few VM's mainly testing out a migration to S2008.
 
We use it at work to provide our sales guys with a fully-working, easily-upgradable/maintainable demonstration environment for the software we develop and sell.

Rather than having to maintain the latest version on each of their laptops, we can just copy across the virtual hard drive file with all the latest updates on it, saving us a lot of time.

It also allows them to be "ready to go" for their presentations without having to load up all aspects of the package by making use of the save-states.
 
XCougar said:
I have a Centos DC running VMware virtual server with a virtual FreeNAS supporting the network.

I also have a windows 7 to play with, a ubuntu to play with, and a XP Pro that I like to infect with viruses and watch the effect, lol.
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Oh yea I also set this up for the company I work for, although using Virtual PC rather then vmware (seems to be easier for users, not my preference).
We use it to run virtual window 98s in a XP environment, so we can run old fire panel software diagnostics (as they only run on 98).
 
I use it to mimic customer solutions, so have a variety of servers so that I can then work from home. I use VMWare workstation and Xenserver 5.1 on another.
 
Hyper V for running the following';

2 Instances of Server 2003 for DNS, Exchange, DHCP
Server 2008 for exchange 07
Windows XP clients,
Windows Vista clients
Windows 7 clients

All running on its own internal network.

All for MS exams.
 
2 Hyper-V Machines at work each containing 12GB RAM and a shed-load of NAS. Dual Quad Core Xeon niceness :)

Server itself runs WSUS (Windows patch deployment) on the main Win '08 installation.
Virtually, we run:
Sophos Anti Virus Enterprise (w2003) - 2GB RAM assigned, serves around 600 client PC's
Standard W2003 Print Server - 2GB Assigned, around 80-90 network printers
Websense reporting tool (w2008) - 2GB Assigned - pretty much lets us know who's seeing what on the net kinda-app.

2nd Hyper-V Server is a redundant backup, but runs test projects...until something (touch wood) blows up on the first server. All virtual Servers can be booted up on it should the worst happen.

On my desktop, Just use Virtual Server 2005, with an XP session for certain apps that dont work under Vista x64.
 
Running VMware Server 2 (with VIclient interface - none of that horrible web interface for me!) for a few reasons:

2 Ubuntu 8.04 VMs for folding
1 Ubuntu 8.10 VM for simulation development
Other misc VMs for trying linux OSes (new releases etc)

This machine needs more RAM (plus a dual socket i7 upgrade methinks)! I tried hyper-V, but needed CUDA support on the host OS (server 2008), the driver for which made everything super slow. Hyper-V is great - seemed a lot faster at booting VMs than VMware server, plus the 4 way virtual SMP is great. Realistically though, i want to use my desktop a bit, so server 2008 had to go!
 
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