[LBo] VMWare vs. Parallels

[Terence Arnold]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stefan Waidele" <St.Waidele at LinuxBasics.org>
> To: qna at linuxbasics.org
> Subject: Re: [LBo] VMWare vs. Parallels
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:02:32 +0100
> 
> 
> Steve Hinsley schrieb:
> > [...]
> > I haven't used Parallels, but it runs two operating systems at 
> > the same time and it is seamless. That also means you would need 
> > at least 2 gigs of RAM.
> 
> Not really. I have not used Parallels either, but I do run multiple 
> VMware virtual machines on one server with 2GB of RAM.
> 
> At the same time, I run in virtual machines:
> 
>    * An Ubuntu fileserver (256 MB RAM)
>    * A Win98 Workstation with the hotel-reservation system on it (128 MB RAM)
>    * Two WinXP Workstation with the reservation system (256 MB RAM, each)
>    * One Win NT 3.1 system which charges the telephone-fees to the 
> room-bills (64 MB)
> 
> I access these machines from various ubuntu-workstations spread 
> throughout the house. All of these are "fast enough" for regular 
> reception-work, e-mail and typing the "today's special" for the 
> restaurant.
> 
> As you can see, I have virtualized my whole mission-critical 
> network in less than one GB of RAM, leaving enough room for the 
> 'real' operating system to breathe.
> 
> I love it!
> 
> Stefan


I have been using vmware for testing out multiple distros Stefan but I haven't used it yet to run systems that save their settings and documents within the virtualised environment. Is there any good faq etc you know that I could look at for this?

Terence

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