Virtual Windows Servers on Linux laptop...

[sarahwithanx at gmail.com (Sarah McGlinchey)]

VMware server is now free.  That is your best bet if you want to run
Windows while running Linux.  You can install multiple VMs and only
one run at a time (will help with memory usage).

Xen has come a long way.  You can run Windows under it with a VT-x
processor, but I do not think you are going to have one a in laptop.
I have not set this up, so I am not sure how difficult it will be.  I
use Xen, but only with Linux systems with their kernel patches.

On 2/13/07, Grant M. <gmongardi at napc.com> wrote:
> 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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