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Originally Posted by imback
Ok, kind of new to this, what exactly is one of the virtual server bits of software going to do for me? Sorry to be dumb, I have just never needed to do this before.
Basically I have a module of my course that is about installing and administering 2003 server so want it to play with on my machine, but want to be able to get shot of it later when i am done with it doing no harm to my XP install.
PC I have is Athlon XP2000 with 1gig of RAM.
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Virtual machines run inside your existing operating system as windows applications (Windows), and share resources (Network, memory, Disk which is normally a big file on the host OS, etc). For instance on my "Dev" box, I am running Windows XP SP2 - on this machine I have the following virtual devices that I can startup;
Windows XP
Windows NT4
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2003 Enterprise
Windows for Workgroups (cos I can)
Mandrake
and
Redhat
You have enough memory probably to run 1 copy of 2003 and another XP if required. Makes testing shareware much easier as you keep a "Virgin" copy of the XP Client then copy to a new virtual machine, install the software, test it then blow the machine away. All take seconds not minutes or hours