Re: Win7, Linux, Virtualization

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You would have to set up your system to dual boot, one boot into ESX and 
one into Win7.  It's possible, but I've not done it since the Win7 runs 
as a VM over ESX better than it does on bare metal.  ESX manages memory 
extremely well and I suppose that's the real difference in Win7 
performance.

ESX does have a facility to push a virtual machine back to hard metal 
but I've never tried that, only physical machine to virtual which has 
always been flawless.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 11/30/2012 4:52 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> I thought 16gb was lots of memory!  Still, I doubt if I'll be doing
> anything close to what you seem to be up to.
>
> ESX looks like it is more than I need.  If I did that, could I go back
> to Win 7 as the host OS?
>
> Sam
>
> On 11/30/2012 6:58 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> > >  I use VmWare Workstation extensively.  (i7 box with 32GB RAM, 2TB disk)
> > >  and routinely have five or six clients running at one time, each with a
> > >  separate VPN into other networks.   (Fusion on the MAC workstation as
> > >  well, that actually works better than the Win7 version does) Both
> > >  Workstation and Fusion cost some money but it's worth it in the end.
> > >
> > >  It would be very simple to create the environment your describing.  In
> > >  my case the base OS is Win7 with workstation loaded on top.
> > >
> > >  You might also consider that ESX is free for use on a system with 32GB
> > >  of memory or less.  Use ESX as the base OS and load the VMs as needed. I
> > >  have that running on a more beefy machine and it does Active Directory,
> > >  Exchange, several copies of Linux, and soon SharePoint.
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