So...how much hardware, especially CPU and memory to run all the OS's at once? Are the system resources just taken up by Windows as the host and one other OS at a time for a Virtual OS?
It's my understanding that the Windows would be always working as the host OS and then I would need to allow for extra memory, etc, for a Virtual OS that I might initialize. Sound right? -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:56 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? > > So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. > > Not having used Virtual PC or anything like it, I have to ask.are any > of you using Virtual PC or something similar in you CF work? Yup... both server and standard. My home development box is a VPC Server host: one big box, lots of little (virtual) servers. Until I got him a dedicated box I also used VPC in a lifesaving application: to run a dedicated Windows 98 instance to install all the crappy games that my toddler son demanded. It saved my ass when "Thomas and the Magic Annoying Choo-Choo" decided it NEEDED to run at 256 colors at 640x480 and uninstalled DirectX to do it. For business use I've got a large collection of VPCs: all versions of Windows, several Linux distros and some oddballs (BeOS... just for kicks). I've also got a VPC with a second Windows XP license just to install my work software and keep it from infecting my actual PC (Lotus Notes, DB2 Client, etc). VPCs are good network citizens and I can happily VPN to the office from with in the VPC. All that said I've found no significant differences between VPC and VMWare: they both do exactly what they say they're going to do and both do it exceedingly well. What I really want is for one of them to allow OS X as a guest OS... Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246548 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
