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VMWARE n00b, couple questions

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darren700

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Ok, I would like some advice from you fellow [h]'ers

I have never messed with vm's before and i just downloaded VMWARE Workstation. Im gonna mess around with it on my computer and i have a couple questions.

first of all, i have 6gb of ram, would that be sufficient to run a single vm alongside vista x64 (xp, and maybe another one for ubuntu). If so, how many vm's can be run with that ram and still have the machine not function any slower than now? I know the obv answer here is double the ram to 12gb, which will be in a couple months...

next question, i have an external hard drive that i would like to run a vm off of and install office 2007, ie. office 2007 portable. I would like to be able to run an xp vm off of the external hard drive without having to boot off of it, is this possible? (ie. plug into any computer, click an exe and the xp vm starts up in a window) could anyone direct me how to do this if it is?

Thanks alot for any help
 
Let me put it this way.
My laptop at work is a C2D 7300 with 3gb of ram, running XP32.

I run XP, Openfiler VM, Win2k3 VM, 2x ESX vms, and a pair of nested VMs in it at the same time as my normal work stuff. So yes, you have WAY more than enough ram :).

It depends on how much you assign the vms, and how much you want them to perform.

You can't quite run it like that - double clicking the vm will load it in workstation, then you hit start to go. You could make it into an appliance though, and carry around VMware player (free) to install where needed too, but yo'd have to have player.
 
He could ACE package the VM to a thumbdrive though, if he licensed Workstation, and ACE (after the VM was all built, running, and updated). That would give him the functionality he is looking for.
 
To put it bluntly (and agree with lopoetve), your machine is more then enough to run a few VM's quite comfortably. I run XP, Server 2k3, Server 2k8, and Win7 all on 4GB of RAM.
 
sheesh, you guys must be starving your VM's on RAM! I usually give 256MB to a WinXP VM, and would give at least 1GB to any server VM, and Windows Vista/7. Below that, I can't tolerate the performance.
 
sabregen said:
He could ACE package the VM to a thumbdrive though, if he licensed Workstation, and ACE (after the VM was all built, running, and updated). That would give him the functionality he is looking for.
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True. I avoid ACE :p
 
sabregen said:
sheesh, you guys must be starving your VM's on RAM! I usually give 256MB to a WinXP VM, and would give at least 1GB to any server VM, and Windows Vista/7. Below that, I can't tolerate the performance.
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OF has 384, VC has 384, ESX has 800. I need something left to run XP in :p

my nested win2k3 vms get 128mb.
 
lopoetve said:
OF has 384, VC has 384, ESX has 800. I need something left to run XP in :p

my nested win2k3 vms get 128mb.
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Single, or double nested? They're running under the virtual ESX machines, right? aren't technically all VMs nested? VMs running under a VM (like an ESX VM, in this case) would be double-nested, correct?
 
sabregen said:
Single, or double nested? They're running under the virtual ESX machines, right? aren't technically all VMs nested? VMs running under a VM (like an ESX VM, in this case) would be double-nested, correct?
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Well yes - we generally just call them nested like that though, since they're not running directly on the first hypervisor. :p

They're running on the ESX vms - one of them is even an AD/DNS server. :)
 
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