I don't intend to run the VMs constantly, but mostly for testing things out first, before commiting the changes to the real machines, as it were. -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tim Mangan Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:45 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Virtual PC I guess it depends on what you plan to do with it. As a single VM for light work it will be fine. RAM is probably the weakest link, but only if your situation needs it. tim ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:43 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Virtual PC Yeah, I know, I expected that too, but not to that degree. The Evo is after all considered pretty fast still IMHO. Oh well, win some loose some... I moved all virtual machines to my stationary, and after christmas I'll ask my boss for a new stationary with at least 2GB RAM, maybe an Amd64 x2 (3500-4200 or so) running of a mobo with nforce4 chips, and two really big harddrives (200GB each or so) and raid0 them. Hopefully this'll be enough for some years to come <crossing fingers>. Maybe you guys on this list could say whether the above hardware should be ok for running VMs? -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tim Mangan Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 5:34 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Virtual PC I would also expect that a "portable" likely has a slower memory bus. Free disk space on the host (and I suppose fragmentation) may also have quite an effect. tim ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig http://kenzig.com Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:01 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: Virtual PC Yes CPU speed makes a huge difference with VM's. And for whatever reason depending on the version of EVO we have found that some of them run a lot slower then they are supposed to for whatever reason. You are also not taking into consideration what else is running on these systems that may take up memory/cpu etc. For example are you using different Antivirus programs or the same on each one. Check your memory/cpu usage prior to run the VM's and make sure you are comparing apples to apples. Jim Sorin Srbu < wrote: Hi all, I cloned a virtual machine (win2k3 sp2) image and ran one on my portable and one on my stationary box. Why would the stationary computer run the virtual machine so much faster? It's actually no difference running a real win2k3 server on real hardware than this virtual machine... Both virtual machines run with the same ram setup (384MB), and so on. Portable: Compaq Evo N800c (Intel P4-M/1,8GHz, 1GB RAM, 7k rpm Hitachi HD). Stationary: OEM (Amd Athlon XP/3000+ (approx 2,2GHz), 1GB RAM, 7k Seagate HD). The stationary does have a faster cpu, about 400MHz more, but should this really make a difference?? Or is it a RAM performance issue? Or something else? BW, Sorin # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://pharm.orgfarm.uu.se/pc/ # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # # Public PGP key available on request. # # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-m ail # /\ # # Harmless tagline follows: # # There are no stupid questions. Questions don't think. ***************************** New Site from The Kenzig Group! Windows Vista Links, list options and info are available at: http://www.VistaPop.com ***************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm