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Hi all
to those using vmware server or vmware esxi -- yes these are free but the downside that you actually need an EXTRA machine on your network in order to congigure and manage the vm's - even if the virtual machines physically reside on the hardware running the vmware server / esxi server. (Doesn't apply of course to vmware workstation as this runs under control of a host OS.
If you have a home desktop and a laptop then this is fine but if you only have one machine then you can't really use this software.
However once you get the vm's installed and powered on you gain a HUGE amount in not having an underlying HOST system consuming vast amounts of resources that yu can give to the vm's.
So if you've got a spare machine this is definitely the way to run vm's IMO.
Cheers
jimbo