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Virtualization for free and runs on XP home edition too

Maybe you already knew this but VMWare now provides a free VMWare server package. It has most stuff that Microsoft VirtualServer  has but you don't need Windows 200x and a VirtualServer license to just host some XP / Ubuntu images.

A nice thing too is that both Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server don't run on Microsoft XP Home Edition and VMWare server runs just damn fine ;-) I need this at home because my new pc doesn't have installation cd's but only a recovery partition without installables.

Currently running Ubuntu and Windows 2003 and both run and perform quite well.
Posted: Thu, Feb 9 2006 2:38 PM by Ramon Smits | with 3 comment(s)

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Patrick Wellink said:

Well i switched from Virtual PC to vmware,
i read some stuff about vmware and performance reviews.
it seemed VMware would be faster,

but it turns out that Virtual PC is the best environment to emulate a full VS 2005 developement environment.
Eventually is will run more smoothly then the VMWare.

So i would upgrade the Home edition to something more professional...
# February 13, 2006 5:55 AM

Rolf Eleveld said:

So where did you obtain the windows 2003 from? Why not switch change the OS vor the virtual image? Or why not run Ubunto to a direct coupled physiclal drive? in the virtual environment... more questions than answers here I know.
# February 13, 2006 3:42 PM

Ramon Smits said:

@Patrick: Yes, VirtualPC is the better product for Windows. I indeed plan to upgrade my home edition to pro but I have difficulties with the installation because it is DUTCH and I don't have a Windows XP SP2 Pro Dutch at home.

@Rolf: I obtained Windows 2003 from work ofcourse :)

VMWare has the added bonus in that it is more cross platform/OS then Virtual PC. I can also run the Windows 2003 image on my Ubuntu desktop pc if I would want to. (I don't because that pc doesn't have enough resources to run images).
# February 24, 2006 2:14 PM
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