Comments for Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience at http://www.automatedhome.co.uk , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.automatedhome.co.uk Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:23:22 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/Going-Virtual-A-Home-Server-Experience.html#comment-452 >virtualisation is also great for extending the life of old laptops, just RDP to a virtual machine ... interesting point ... wonder if the approach could work with netbooks, too ? - CJ-UK Sat, 23 May 2009 07:50:44 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/Going-Virtual-A-Home-Server-Experience.html#comment-433 I use vmware server 2. You need lots of ram to run multiple machines. I would recommend 1GB for the host and then add however much you allocate to each vm. Disk performance is critical too, spread your vm's over multiple disks. What ever you do, don't let it all start paging! I've run many vms, xp, vista, windows 7, ubuntu, solaris, asterix. My server is a quad 2.4 with 8GB, and runs 5 VM's with no problems. Virtualisation is also great for extending the life of old laptops, just RDP to a virtual machine. - Paul Thomas Thu, 14 May 2009 17:18:27 +0100 http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Reviews/Going-Virtual-A-Home-Server-Experience.html#comment-427 Sounds like a good way to go as it's ver SWMBO friendly (Less boxes = happy SWMBO). But, what would be a base spec for a VM machine running say 2 x WinXP server and FreeNAS ? At the moment I run these on old 600mhz pcs with very little noise and heat (don't know the power consumption though). - Chris Tue, 12 May 2009 18:37:03 +0100