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On Jun 25, 2007, at 3:10 PM, David McFarlane wrote: > I am building a new machine and want to use virtualization to run > Microsoft Vista, Linux, etc. I would like your opinions on two > related questions: > > 1) VMWare vs. Microsoft Virtual PC? > I have used both Virtual PC and VMWare. I have had much better luck with VMWare. In my opinion, VMWare is a better performing piece of software, but both will do what you need. > 2 )Linux (or FreeBSD) as host OS with Vista as a guest, vs. Vista > as host OS with Linux (or FreeBSD) as guest? > I have found that SUSE Linux has the best support for running VMWare hosts. It has RPMs and everything including the kernel parts, Debian also had pre-made packages for the various VMWare kernel parts. I can't really speak for long term use of VMWare on Vista as my preference was to run it under Linux. --Ray