Hi,
I use it on my Trading PC , cause I'm frustrated to shut down a
working system and next day nothing works...
my personal feeling is that the best thing to keep a MS system alive
is to install nothing.
The next point is the more and more strict activation policy of MS -
Hey I bought several licenses - give MS my hard earned money - and I
hate to take a phone call to MS cause I changend a Harddisk or
something else on my PC. And the rest I can say with one word: VISTA -
the minimum hardware requirements drive me crazy... I need a OS with
works stable nothing more but when a OS needs more Hardware than the
software I use there is something wrong - With Vista on it my Laptop
would be unusable
So I step for step turned my used software to Open-Source which also
works under Linux
from IE to Firefox
from Outlook to Thunderbird
from MSOffice to OpenOffice... and so on - then I switched to Ubuntu
last year
Today I can do all of my daily needs under Linux - and trust me - the
installation of a Linux system for
multimonitor use is a little bit tricky - sure - but after it works (6
Monitors) - I have no problems at
all and it runs without any glitch..
Yesterday I setup the new Ubuntu 8.04 on my Laptop - 4 hours and all
Software is personal adapted and working - for me as an long time
MS-update-approved user - really amazing - the system didn't slow down
in speed -
my last XP setup - I can't remember the days...
So for Software I can't use under Linux (TS2000i and some days ago
TS8) - I use VMs - and thats really great -
use the best of all worlds at the same time..
I made several VMs
- 1 VM - I use as Master - Win2000 installed with security software -
then I copy this VM and made
- 1 VM for Trading - I install no other software on it
- 1 VM for Testing software
Win2000Pro is best the best choice if you take your VMs between
different PCs no activation problem...
I made regualary backups of my VMs - if a problem appear - I only
switch to the backup and didn't
have to stop working any more...
Bye
Ralf
Jimmy Snowden schrieb:
> Do you use the VMware Workstation 6 with a server computer or just on
> your trading computer? Why did you go to this configuration?
>
> Any information appreciated,
>
> Jimmy
>
>
> Hi,
>
> yes, I used TS8 with VMware Workstation 6 and Sun Virtualbox with WinXP
> Pro as guest OS and Ubuntu 7.10 as Host - works without any Problem.
> Yesterday I switched to Ubuntu 8.04 host without problem.
>
> But yet I would prefer Suns VirtualBox over VMware Workstation -
cause I
> feel it works much faster with WinXP
>
> Two Things are importend:
>
> 1. Memory 1GB or greater, so the host and guest has enough memory
for work
> 2. If you create a virtual Harddisk remember that it's not easy to
> expand the virtual size later
> ( I work with 50GB virtual Harddisks - so I have enough space for
> later installations - don't worry
> about the size - virtualdisks only takes the place it really
needs
> - at the moment my biggest
> VM takes about 15 GB fom the Harddisk )
> >