What is your virtual machines setup?

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Hello guys, well I know that some of you enjoy using visualization so I thought I would start this topic. (Mods I think this is the right place:confused:)

I currently use Vmware Workstation and Vmware Player. The host is my Vista x64.

My guests are:

1) Mac OS X 10.14 (With 512MB RAM)
2) Windows XP + SP3 (With 1GB RAM)
3) Ubuntu 8.04 (With 1GB RAM)

I use them for the following:

The Mac is just to fool around with the Mac os, it runs but painfully slow and if I give it more ram, kernel panic. It is nice to just get an idea what a mac is like.

Windows XP, I mainly use to browse international sites using my Axxess account when my Telkom one has capped. Must say Windows XP runs like a dream and even more so with SP3.

Ubuntu, now I would be using this as my main OS but due to the sound problems that I still can't sort out, I'll continue to get my love of Linux through a virtual machine for now. 8.04 is the first Ubuntu virtual machine I have noticed that works flawlessly in Vmware
 
I'm running SuSe 10.3 on my laptop (2gb Ram).
I have VMware Server running on it.

Only one vm at the moment and that's XP (512mb RAM) (Basicly just so i can use Office 2007, Evolution just doesn't compare to Outlook 2007. For me in any way)
I often just add another vm for testing purposes. :)

Busy downloading Ubuntu 8.04 now (desktop and server) will probably play with them a little soon :D.

Did SP3 help you Vm of XP (maybe i must just give it the extra 512mb) ???
 
Herm said:
I'm running SuSe 10.3 on my laptop (2gb Ram).
I have VMware Server running on it.

Only one vm at the moment and that's XP (512mb RAM) (Basicly just so i can use Office 2007, Evolution just doesn't compare to Outlook 2007. For me in any way)
I often just add another vm for testing purposes. :)

Busy downloading Ubuntu 8.04 now (desktop and server) will probably play with them a little soon :D.

Did SP3 help you Vm of XP (maybe i must just give it the extra 512mb) ???
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Sp3 helped a lot, you should install sp3 and add an extra 512mb. It will fly
 
VirtualBox with Windows Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu (Hardy). Host is Windows XP x86 with Service Pack 2.

I'll download Service Pack 3 soon ;)
 
Virtualbox with XP guest in ubuntu host. Use it mainly for photoshop and for testing in ie7. (use ies4linux for ie6 testing). Use it in seamless mode, so I have gnome panel at the top of the desktop and windows taskbar (or whatever its called) along the bottom. :D
 
Virtual PC 2007 running a Windows XP SP2 VM purely for connecting to work on VPN; that's so the VPN software doesn't cut off all my other network links and internet link.
 
Im currently running 3x windows xp professional and windows server 2003 on vmware workstation.
 
Why bring up such an old thread? I was tying to figure out why people are running Ubuntu 8.04, then I looked at the date...
 
Epic revival!

Win7 host,Server 2008,2003 and XP vms
 
VMware workstation on win7
(All for work) Run:
2 x XP
2003 server
2008 server

...Hapy days....
 
Ubuntu 10.04 x64 host on i7 860 + 8GB RAM.

VirtualBox guests (typically 2GB RAM + 2 CPU threads assigned):
Windows XP SP3 - for testing websites with Internet Explorer
Fedora Core 10 - 13 x64 - for writing & testing installation scripts

Then I also have Windows XP installed in a dual boot configuration for gaming :D
 
Wow how things have changed since I started this thread years ago.

Firstly I am now working and I am busy moving the company from an evil/horrible 2003SBS box to a 2008R2 box with Hyper V.
 
Linoman said:
Wow how things have changed since I started this thread years ago.

Firstly I am now working and I am busy moving the company from an evil/horrible 2003SBS box to a 2008R2 box with Hyper V.
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Good move.
 
ESX Server 4.1 on 12 nodes with dual quad core xeon preocessors attached to +-12TB SAN storage and 64GB ram in each node which range from Dell 6850's to R710's all managed from a central VSphere console. Full failover and redundancy and about 300+ VM's.

That's at the larger site...
 
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