[Cialug] Which VM for workstation use?

[Theron Conrey]

Two virtual procs in your case = one physical processor.  We all know how well XP performs with a gig of RAM, but it should be tolerable.  Also of note,
you're going to see better performance out of workstation than you will out of server.  Installing the Vmware tools should help some on server (actually you'll see it help keep your Ubuntu environment functional).  If you can swing it, try and get a copy of workstation.  If you need a license to test with send me a note offline, I bought a license (for Linux) that I'm not using because my company bought licenses, and I'm using that one at work (All Xen after hours.)

-Theron


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:39 PM
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Cialug] Which VM for workstation use?

I've messed with the settings.

Once proc, two 512M to 1024M  What It really looks like I need is a way to give more timeslices, or whatever the linux/VM term is, to the Virtual Machine.

-Nate


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theron Conrey [mailto:theron.conrey at dice.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:31 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Which VM for workstation use?
>
> Dual opteron dual cores.....
>
> How many virtual processors have you given the VM? Amount of RAM for
> the VM?
>
> -Theron
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:28 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: [Cialug] Which VM for workstation use?
>
>
> So I got my new mighty workstation (dual opteron dual cores,
> 2 GB RAM) and put Ubuntu 32 bit on the bare metal and then loaded
> Vmware server (free edition).  I'm getting horrible performance and I
> cannot get my windows workstation ghosted on to the machine.  Even
> once XP gets loaded with vmware tools I'm feeling a bit let down.
>
> I've used Vmware workstation in the past and we use ESX server to host
> several applications in house and I've never seen it perform quite so
> horribly trying to do these setup tasks.  I don't have the patience
> for a DD copy but that is about all I am left with.
>
> I'm looking for a little guidance - Should I switch products to
> something else VM Workstation, Xen.... ?  Or keep banging my head
> against VM server?
>
> I'm having a "Virtual isn't all it is cracked up to be" moment.
>
> -Nate
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