I’ve spent a considerable amount of time lately creating virtual machines on my work and home computers. In an effort to come up with a set of environments that make developing and testing applications easier I initially setup Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. In the few weeks that I’ve used it I have found that I need more than just Windows options in my virtual environments. This weekend I decided to give VMware Server a test drive … and just as quickly decided to uninstall MS Virtual PC. VMware Server is a free download, and according to the vmware website:

VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Streamline software development and testing and simplify server provisioning as you utilize the ability to “build once, deploy many times.”

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