I am just getting done setting mine up thus far. I installed slackware on VMware server (was free, I just had to sign up for key) I installed an image from scratch instead of importing one in (I have always had better luck this way)

It was fairly effortless so far. The overall graphical side of my VM runs like a turd. I just got slack 11 with base XFCE on board. No matter, I am using it as a strict server anyways, and have a handful of services running on it. My computer is a 2.4 ghz, 6 year old machine with 1 gig of 333 DDR. It wants to slay me right now I can play the MUD with out chop, and that is basically a sign of what I need it for. So success there.

It is slightly funny, cause running the linux install with windows atop, spawned less headaches. The chop was hardly noticeable.

With your set-up, O_o, did you have any pointers on lowering the chop through the VMware. Outside of upping my ram of course? Just curious, as like I said, when slack was the base, and windows was emulated, it went smooth cakes. Now it has a good chop with windows being the base, and linux being emulated. I haven't had much time to play, but I am not sure where to point the finger at, at the moment.

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I preferred VirtualPC when I was playing around with virtualization, but I'm not sure if that piece of software has been updated in a while.
Yeah, I have heard nothing but good from it too, but I do not think you can emulate linux through it. At a recent NOREX meet up (an IT summit of sorts) we all discussed how the virtualizations were going, and VMware was used by everyone in the room but two companies (out of about 20 or so that were using virtualization). Though, the two that were using it were completely happy with it's performance.