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JK>-> I had no problems building a OS/2 Warp 3 virtual machine from the
JK>-> CDROM. The CDROM emulator under VM Workstation worked fine.  One
JK>-> of the big advantages of virtualization is abstracting away the
JK>-> underlying hardware.  I can now move my OS/2 virtual machine to
JK>-> any hardware machine I want.  Right now it's running as 1 of 6
JK>-> virtual machines on a Windows 2008 R2 server.

JK>VMware Workstation is OK for testing and experimentation, but poor
JK>for performance. In my experience, Virtualbox is faster. I've got a
JK>Windows 2000 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 vbox host, and the
JK>network speed is close to the hardware maximum. It never ran that
JK>fast with VMware.

You may very well be right.  All of the VMs I have running on my 2008 R2
server are low usage VMs so they run fine for my uses.  VM Workstation 
performance has gotten better.  If I was really concerned about 
performance I'd likely just use a physical machine.  All virtualization 
technology is going to have some overhead.


Jeff 

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