<html><head><meta name="Generator" content="PocoMail 3 HTML/CSS Generator"/> <style type="text/css"></style> </head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0">On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:36:14 -0400, Stamper, Steve wrote: > I'm looking for experiences (for or against) running multiple/mixed > RedHat and Windoze as "Guest Operating Systems" in a VMWare server > environment. I've some limited experience with VMWare for personal use and if all you want the guest OS to do is act as some sort of server then its great - quite quick but can be quite memory intensive at times - obviously depends what apps you're running on the guest OS. Some of the probs i came across: - unable to give access to PCI devices - accelerated graphics/sound not available (uses VMware virtual devices) - unable to boot the guest OS partition directly - got a BSOD when i tried with XP - bit fiddly to uninstall from linux, even with rpms - loads of virtual devices kept appearing (vmware network bridge etc) Before moving to VMWare i'd look at alternative programs that run under linux - it would probably be less hassle. HTH Jeff </body></html>