Frodo
Sat Apr 09 02:54:48 CDT 2005
I'd go for VMWare, not virtual PC. Get yourself a nice fast workstation with
2 or 4 GB RAM - this way you can run a bunch of VMs at the same time.
"Neil" <guess!!!@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> did you hear catwalker63 <_catwalker63_@hotmamamail.com> say in
> news:Xns9632B0254BF9Bcatwalker63athotmail@216.196.97.136:
>
>> Steven U's idea for
>> swapping HDs is good in some respects
>
> they are but they lose the interactive protion occasionally. trays are
> typically about $20 and drives are whatever drives are. They were great
> in the classrooms 5 years ago too, but now VPC makes them obselete. There
> are some tricks as well to running more VPCs on a single bix but is is
> always best to have at least 1Gb of RAM when you want to do multiple
> VPCs. Robert Moir (who posted here recently) is an MVP for VPCs and his
> pages (
http://www.robertmoir.co.uk/win/VirtualPC2004FAQ.html) also link
> to Ben Armstrong's (MS product manager for VPC) bloag. there are some
> good tips and tricks listed there. If you want a few tips for improving
> performance here are a few - defrag, defrag and defrag. Not just the host
> OS but the guest OS as well. Makes a huge difference in perf. Follow the
> directions on Roberts page to run virtual PCs at maximum speed and give
> equal CPU time to each. Also compact the guest OS vhd. YES YOU HEARD ME.
> There are some tools that will prepare a vhd for compacting and then
> there are tools to compact the vhds. The key is to minimize the disk
> access. Although compacting the vhds means that there will be the
> required CPU decompression this is small potatos compared to lots of disk
> activity.
>
> Now, go forth and virtualize...
>
> --
> Neil MCNGP#30
>
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