Are anybody virtualizing Girder?

[Mastiff]

I have cut down the power consumption in the house a few notches by running two of the computers that has very particular functions (one of them only converts video for works, the other one downloads it) into my main server, and it works very well. So I started to think if maybe Girder would enjoy having it's own virtual machine with just about nothing else in it. Has anybody tried something like that? I have a few problems with Phidgets and stability, maybe having this kind of setup would help? So has anybody tried that?

[Marquis]

Hi,

I am running G5 in a virtual machine. I was not happy with the performance having it running with all other tasks on my server and also I needed to have an auto-logon (which is not a good idea on a server!). So I tried to set a virtual machine and I am happy with it. I found it was running with a better performance (response-time) and also more stable.

My config is:
Windows XP Pro
SP2
Antivirus
Firewall
G5

The virtual machine is hosted on a Windows 2003 Server. I am using the free server VM from vmware.

Cheers,
Marc

[Mastiff]

Thanks! That was exactly the configuration I was thinking of! I think I'm gonna try that. But since I already have one VM running on the server I need more memory. Only have 1,5 gig now, but two 1 gig sticks are arriving next week, so I'm gonna be running 3 gig, which should be enough for boh the server and the two VM's without too much hard disc activity. Another version would be to simply use the already excisting VM (same setup), which I'm gonna try first.