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At the first glance VMWare ESXi is the right way to go for VM stuffs, but later on once I found out vSphere is actually not free, I got hit, after I reimaged the Vista box and turned it to a dedicated VM box.
After going through various sources, I decided to stay with ESXi for a while, because:
- It will be free to me for 60 days (well, another 58 days indeed)
- Xen is not that easy to be setup as I can see, need to learn more
- VMWare Go just announced today and I will take a try later on to see how it works
So far, running 6 VMs on a dual-core/3G mem machine is acceptable, I’m going to launch more tests on this box and will remove my VMs on Virtual box soon.
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VMware just released VMware Go couple of days ago, and now I have full tool chain for free, though Go is not that stable to me. I’m removing VirtualBox now.
The unstable behavior I got seems coming from using Go manage VMs created by vSphere, I played around for a while and now seems things are working fine.
I still cannot install Go on my corporate-issued laptop, but I’ve successfully installed it on my Vista and XP machine. Vista’s security setting seems causing some minor troubles, but so far both XP and Vista are running fine.
I’ve removed all VMs under VirtualBox, and I’m removing my beta version of vSphere now.