[sllug-members]: VMWare machines on Linux

[Allen Parker]

On 2/22/07, Nathan Lane [yho] <nathanderweiser at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking into changing my entire system over to Linux, and I may have
> multiple computers, but I have been using VMWare ESX Server at work and now
> I'm wondering how well a Windows image might run on Open VMWare Server.  The
> reason why I don't want to use ESX is because I don't have SCSI and I don't
> have money to switch over.  So I've got IDE and Pentium III 775, which I
> know is way low.
>
> My question is: Has anybody had experience running a Windows VM in Linux on
> an IDE based system?  How well does it run?  Is VMWare a resource hog when
> it's not their server?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nathan Lane
>

On non-accelerated hardware (AMD SVM or Intel VT), I've experienced an
average of 15% performance hit compared to native. It's really up to
you tbh, I've run win2k on a 486DX2/66 with 256MB ram ;-)