Laptop OS Virtualization?

Richard Soule richard.soule at oracle.com
Mon Apr 10 16:30:01 EDT 2006


Add me to the VMWare crowd. I use it every time I do a demo. My laptop 
came from Oracle with WinXP on it, I run Linux, WinXP and Win2K Server 
VMs depending on which demo I want to run.

Sometimes running the WinXP VM with Oracle EE database, Oracle EE 
Application Server, Oracle BPEL Server, Oracle XML Publisher, Oracle 
Forms, Oracle Reports and Oracle Discoverer can be a bit slow. Generally 
we recommend putting that much software on more than one machine or at 
least one machine with more power than my laptop: Dell D600 1.6 MHz, 2GB 
Ram, 80 GB HD with 250GB USB drive to hold all the VMs (some of them are 
40+ GB in size).

VM 5.5 for me.

Rich

Ted Roche wrote:

> Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal  
> machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client  work) 
> and Linux (more client work, home & hobby), and I'd like to be  able to 
> toggle between the two rather than a slow reboot.
> 
> Anyone doing this? What VM manager are you using? What host OS? Tips?  
> Reviews? Pans? Warnings?
> 
> Ted "You've got answers? I've got questions!" Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
> 
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