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[Kyle Rudnick]

Kyle reporting in.

Post current system set-ups!

MacBook Pro (Late 2007)
Mac OS 10.5.6 + VMware Fusion: (Windows XP Home+ Ubuntu 8.10)

[Rich Simms]

Welcome Kyle!

I haven't tried VMware Fusion. How does VMware Fusion compare to VMware Server? Let us know too if you get any of the 192 VM's running on Fusion.

My setups at home are:

HP Notebook (2008-ish) - 4GB RAM
Vista Ultimate + VMware Server 2.0: (Win XP, many different Linux VMs)

Homebuilt (2007-ish) - 2GB RAM
Win 2003 + VMware server 1.08: (Win XP, Win 2003, many different Linux VMs) + MS Virtual Server 2005 R2 (many Linux and Win VMs)

- Rich

[Tyler Bahn]

Hi,
Tyler here.

I have several computers, but I primarily use my homebuilt desktop:
Core2Duo e4300, 4GB RAM w/Ubuntu

I'm going to try to make the time to put a windows box together so I can play with VMware Server. We use VMware Infrastructure at my work, which so far seems fairly similar to VMware Server.

-Tyler

[Kyle Rudnick]

[quote="Rich Simms"]
I haven't tried VMware Fusion. How does VMware Fusion compare to VMware Server? Let us know too if you get any of the 192 VM's running on Fusion.
[/quote]

As far as I know, VM's will still translate and run correctly, but I've noticed that Fusion can take up lots of RAM. For instance, running Ubuntu set to 512MB will take up about 700MB of my memory. I haven't tried running more than one VM at a time, so I'm not sure if the extra memory will be cumulative.

I'm working on getting my MBP partitioned so I can get Windows 7 (yay!) installed so I can run VMware Server directly - but Boot Camp seems to be throwing a fit at the moment.

[Jonathan Simms]

Hey everyone,

I've got a home built PC running Slackware 12.2. I also have a couple laptops used my family and me that are running Windows.

[mary talpas]

Rich,

i want to set up the vm's on my home computer. do you think i need to bring in a 40gb hd?

mary