Al,

I run Windows 7 as base with Vmware supporting 4 servers at home. Windows 8, 8.1, exchange and Linux on a 16Gb machine with i3 processor and all the VM's run no problem. The sevret if you do it this way is to make the underlying supporting O/S a virgin install and of course you have no need to do any updates to it as you will never use it in anger.

As I said, you can do away with Windows or Linux as the base if you use VCentre (was free and still may be) or HyperV (free) but I find the ease of having Win7 underlying is more convenient if a little less efficient.

Dave

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From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Allen

Sent: 28 February 2014 09:36

To: profox@leafe.com

Subject: RE: [NF] Virtualisation

Thanks Dave

I'm not upset on using Microsoft. After all my work is done on that.

I was wondering about hardware level virtualisation which should mean the box does it, I think.

The reason for the sudden interest is that net 4.5.1 does not work on server 2003. So I need to update. But I think Linux has more possibilities with email servers and news groups than exchange, but I would like to do it on one machine. Neither is a large overload.

Al

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Al,

Virtualisation requires a base operating system to run the "virtualiser" on for example VMWare. You could run windows 7 as a base machine with VMWare as a std program and in VMWare spin up a linux box and windows boxes etc that would run no problem. However, running Windows as the base operating system isn't the most efficient solution and Linux is best as the OS runs quicker, not having all the M$ Graphical stuff in it.

With Microsoft HyperV which runs on top of Microsoft Server you can do the same thing and my experience is that it is quicker and also free but it keeps you in the M$ camp exclusively!

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