Virtual Windows Servers on Linux laptop...

[gmongardi at napc.com (Grant M.)]

Nathan Meyers wrote:
> Are you talking about multiple boot, or running those Windows systems
> under virtual machines hosted by Linux? If the latter, vmware does the
> job nicely and supports (AFAIK) every Windows release. Of course, you'll
> need a pretty beefy box to run 2 or 3 vmware sessions.

No, I don't need them all running at once, only one session at a time. I
just would like them all ready to go, and to have the needed *nix tools
to snoop traffic & troubleshoot. The plan is that each would be
configured, and I'd start the one that I needed. I could then use
ethereal or whatever to sniff the network, and whatever other tools I
might need.

I've looked at VMWare, and that was my first thought, but I thought I'd
ask just the same. Has anyone tested Xen, and if so, have they compared
it VMWare?
Thanks,
Grant M.
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