Hi,
A client of mine just upgraded to a new C2D PC with all the trimmings and Vista Ultimate. He loves it, but he wants to be able to run an XP VM so he can work with some older apps that he hasn't been able to update to Vista-compatible versions yet. I was wondering which version would give him the best every-day performance for the XP guest OS? Obviously, if I can do it for free with Server or VPC2007, that'd be ideal, but if the performance improvement of Workstation is much greater, I can get him to spend the $200 for it.
Can anyone comment on how well XP will run on VMware Server on his Vista machine?
Specs are as follows:
Vista Ultimate
Core 2 Duo E6600
2GB DDR2800
2x320GB SATA-2 in RAID 1
What do you guys recommend?
A client of mine just upgraded to a new C2D PC with all the trimmings and Vista Ultimate. He loves it, but he wants to be able to run an XP VM so he can work with some older apps that he hasn't been able to update to Vista-compatible versions yet. I was wondering which version would give him the best every-day performance for the XP guest OS? Obviously, if I can do it for free with Server or VPC2007, that'd be ideal, but if the performance improvement of Workstation is much greater, I can get him to spend the $200 for it.
Can anyone comment on how well XP will run on VMware Server on his Vista machine?
Specs are as follows:
Vista Ultimate
Core 2 Duo E6600
2GB DDR2800
2x320GB SATA-2 in RAID 1
What do you guys recommend?