M11x-R2 and VMWare?

Anyone run an M11x-R2 with VMWare and experienced say running three moderately loaded VMs? I have the R1 and may need the ability to demo with it so I am curious how it works. Anyone tried this, it would need 8GB of memory to do this, so I am sure not too many folks are running this.

 

I'm not sure the CPU can handle 3 plus your normal system. I actually just installed Virtual box for the same thing. I don't have the need to run multiple VMs at at time just one at at time but I should have it all set up by tomorrow. Ill let you know how it runs.

 

Thanks mate! There are just times when you don't want to carry a larger laptop around

 

I've been running multiple Virtual Box VMs on my R2 since I bought it. XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, CentOS 5, Ubuntu and another *nix "flavor" I'm really not permitted to mention here. I highly recommend Virtual Box. At least until Oracle decides they need to screw it up in their own special way.

EDIT: And yes, I have no problems running 2 guest VMs at the same time. Can't say I've run 3 at once very often.

 

I can run 3 VM's no problem on my i5

 

Thank for the input. I am in the process of getting VMWare certified and I need the ability to demo a product requiring at a minimum 3 VMs (Windows DC, Windows 7 client, and another). This runs fine on the M17x with 8GB of memory, it would be really nice if this could halfway run on the M11x-R2 i7.

 

Just an update. Didn't think it would take this short of time. I have a VM of Server 2003, 2008 and Windows 7. All with 1 Gig of Ram and 1 Processor support. The servers are running IIS and SQL server. I am pleasantly surprised with the performance from running all 3. Now this was with Virtualbox 4 so not sure how VM ware will fare but I would think they would be very similar.

I am also running all the VMs off a External HDD(my original 320GB)

Good luck

 

Hey man, thanks a bunch!!!

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Server 2008, XP, Backtrack4, & Suse all running fine on VMware workstation.