VM Ware or Virtual PC?

[richard]

Due to a severe lack of space I am looking at setting up some virtual machines at home for me to play around with. However I am not sure whether to use VM Ware Server or Virtual PC. The machine that will be running it is my main box which has the following specs:

P4 3.0 GHz
2 GB PC4200 RAM
1*120 SATA Drive
1*320 SATA Drive
Windows XP Pro (was running Vista Ultimate but had some problems)

[Zoom7000]

I posted this same question here.

The resounding vote went towards VMWare.

[webman]

VMWare Server.

[djm968]

VMWare Server

[richard]

Should I look at increasing the RAM at some point as at present is consists of 4*512 sticks and the board will handle 4 gig.

[webman]

The more RAM the better, get as much as you can

[Inox]

there are some restrictions within xp I believe where you can't see past the firth 3.2 to 3.5Gb of memory and so 4Gb won't help you. I think xp 64bit was sposed to get past this but I can't remember where I read this

[webman]

There's a recent discussion about the 4GB issue over at the PCPlus forum.

[tosca925]

VM Ware server or workstation?

[richard]

I'm looking at VM Ware Server as its free.

[snrweb]

VM Ware every time!

[richard]

Have downloaded and installed VM Ware server over theweekend and I have to say it beats Virtual PC hands down.

[bishopsgarthstockton]

VM Ware any day..... its the mutts nuts :d

[sidewinder]

But surely the MS equivelent of VM Ware Server is Virtual Server, and not Virtual PC? Out of VPC and VmWare yes, VMWare does win hands down.

Virtual Server is a decent product though. I actually prefer it to VMWare Server, but thats mostly because Ive been using it a while and have got used to it

[techyphil]

Yeh, I read a few reviews a while ago and VMWare wh00ped VirtualPC/Server.

Although I think it also said that programming and testing was better on VirtualPC as the guy could write a program on the host then press a few buttons to run it on the virtual pc's without having to share folders and stuff.

Cheers