How many VMs do you have (if any) and what OS do you have on each?

[kernelhaxor]

Would be great if you can also mention for what purpose you have it. Just thought it would be interesting to know.

[scragar]

3

windows XP for games that use a reasonable amount of CPU
Ibex (I wanna see what's coming up)
debian( messed up, I was playing with and havn't got around to reinstalling/deleting -- messed up in that it doesn't boot :P)


Why've you not said what you have?

[gn2]

None. I'm finished distro-hopping and I don't use Windows.

[kernelhaxor]

Oh I have 2

Ubuntu server (jus installed .. need a LAMP for some projects)
Windows Vista (for photoshop and other windows specific software)

[c2olen]

Have a Debian Etch host, running VMware Server, servicing 2 VM's constantly,


Ubuntu Server 7.10 Mailserver
Ubuntu Server 7.10 Webserver
W2003 for various reasons, mainly testing and sometimes specific VPN sessions.

On my laptop I run Hardy Heron servicing 2 VM's using Vbox.


One Vista, for work and compatibility testing and iTunes
Ibex VM for testing

[Delever]

Let's see...

Windows XP, with Visual Studio, IIS, MSSQL express
Windows XP, with AutoCAD, Photoshop (however I almost as good with GIMP now), my own custom drawing software which works only with AutoCAD
Customized Ubuntu version, just testing
Intrepid Ibex alpha 2, testing

[spupy]

2

OS X Tiger, to play around with;
Windows XP, to test stuff I do at work.

[billgoldberg]

I'm using Virtual Box and have 2 OS on there.

One for Puppy linux and one for Arch linux.

[billgoldberg]

3

windows XP for games that use a reasonable amount of CPU
Ibex (I wanna see what's coming up)
debian( messed up, I was playing with and havn't got around to reinstalling/deleting -- messed up in that it doesn't boot :P)


Why've you not said what you have?

Gaming in a VM?

It doesn't support direct X.

If it should, I could do away with my 30gb xp install.

[scragar]

Gaming in a VM?

It doesn't support direct X.

If it should, I could do away with my 30gb xp install.

I use it for old games, UFO enemy unknown, baldurs gate etc. Ones that don't use directX, although honestly I havn't booted it in a long time.

[gn2]

Gaming in a VM?

It doesn't support direct X.

If it should, I could do away with my 30gb xp install.

Maybe you should try VMWare Server.
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d_enabling_vm.html

[Scruffynerf]

3

Fedora
Backtrack3
Attempting to install Arch.

[mips]

Gaming in a VM?

It doesn't support direct X.

If it should, I could do away with my 30gb xp install.

I wonder if VMWare Fusion will make it to linux. From what I understand it has 3D suppport.

[adamogardner]

i have two and am adding backtrack if it ever finishes downloading. the existing are Debian and Mandriva, . I'm still shopping around. Just looking for the best.

[gn2]

I wonder if VMWare Fusion will make it to linux. From what I understand it has 3D suppport.

VMWare Server currently has 3d capability with a W2kPro or Xp Guest, link in my last post.

[uoirej]

Er.... The original question does not look too specific....

1. On my personal laptop I have an winXP hosting vmWare server, on which I run different winXP/winServer2003/ubuntu 8.04 desktop/ubuntu 8.04 server/ubuntu 8.04 jeos clients. When I last had time to experiment with Ubuntu, there were up to three VMs running at once.

2. There's a winXP box once used as file server. Now it has vmWare server hosting a single windows 2003 server hosting Oracle 10. And yes, it still hosts some 300 Gb of files.

3. There's a dedicated Ubuntu Server 8.04 box used solely for hosting virtual machines. Right now there are five Windows 2003 Servers and a single Windows XP.

[Bölvaður]

None at the moment, I have no need for them.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

1 XP VM for lightroom and PS CS3

[Macintosh Sauce]

I run Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Windows Vista Ultimate (Boot Camp), and Ubuntu 8.04.1 in VMware Fusion.

[bp1509]

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