VM question

[Kevin Kempter]

Hi All;

I've recently bought a Dell M6400 laptop with 12G of memory and 2 internal 
hard drives with a raid card.

I've loaded Fedora 10 x86_64 to take advantage of the memory so I can setup 
multiple local databases with large memory footprints.

However, I'm somewhat disappointed with the x86_64 version since I cannot get 
the flash plugin and I get the impression that the 32bit version is more 
desktop friendly.

I'm thinking about looking into loading Vmware's ESX server on the laptop and 
loading Fedora 10 386 for my main desktop and a copy of Fedora 10 x86_64 or 
maybe even CentOS as a VM server to run my databases. 

I'm looking for any thoughts/feedback you'all may have..

Thanks in advance