Whats the best virtual environment to use?

I use virtualbox on linux at home for testing stuff :)
At work we have 2 ESX servers in a cluster for testing stuff :D

If you have a spare pc to dedicate to it then esx/esxi is pretty good and very easy to setup/admin :D
 
IAmATeaf said:
Yep, to get free products from Citrix or VMWare you have to register to download and get a serial number.
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o right i see, just thought it was strange cos it was asking me for my address what buisness i work for telephone number etc just seemed a bit suspect to me thats all, anyway i got the vmplayer 3.0 from file hippo, my last question is will i be able to install it on windows 7 or will i have to install it onto my other hard drive that has XP?

thanks so much for everyones input really appricate it
 
one last thing im going to use my xp cd to install on the virtual machine but its an oem cd so will it work? im going to create a new partiton on my xp hd as i have 200gb of unallocated space on it so i no i can create that in the disk management feature how big should i make the partition size for the virtual machine?

thanks again
 
For XP I normally create an 8gb disk. Also not too sure what you mean but for VMWare you don't need to create a partition on the host OS, you just use the create new virtual machine where you create an 8gb virtual drive which is essentially a file on your hard drive.
 
IAmATeaf said:
For XP I normally create an 8gb disk. Also not too sure what you mean but for VMWare you don't need to create a partition on the host OS, you just use the create new virtual machine where you create an 8gb virtual drive which is essentially a file on your hard drive.
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thanks for the reply mate, the reason i want to put it on another partition is just to keep it clear of my original OS really and i have 200gb of unallocated space so might as well make some use of it
 
liamcrane said:
thanks for the reply mate, the reason i want to put it on another partition is just to keep it clear of my original OS really and i have 200gb of unallocated space so might as well make some use of it
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You don't install to a physical hard disk (although you can if you really want to) with VMware, you create a virtual hard disk file (.vmdk), and specify the maximum size (arbitrary amount of whatever you choose). This is then saved along with the .nvram (BIOS) and .vmk (virtual machine configuration) files, and saved somewhere on your host computer's file system:

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In the above, you can see all the files that are used for one of my Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms (although created with VMware workstation), they are currently stored in my Documents Library (C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Virtual Machines). So no need for another physical disk, nor an alternate partition.
 
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that makes a lot of sense thankyou very much mate, do i need to specify how much ram etc i want the virtual machine to use as i still need my original os to run normally
 
liamcrane said:
that makes a lot of sense thankyou very much mate, do i need to specify how much ram etc i want the virtual machine to use as i still need my original os to run normally
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This is the only real concern with running multiple VM's, as they will use up the host machine's RAM. So if you had say 4GB of RAM, I'd not want to use more than 2GB for my VM's in total.
 
yea i have 4gb of ram in my rig, dont plan using mulitple VMs maybe 2 at the most so i will use 2gb like you say when i run 1 VM and when i decide to use 2 i will use 1gb of ram on each

thanks again for your input
 
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