Virtualization home server questions...

LeperousDust · 05-03-2008, 18:31

Right it struck me the other day (reading daveys thread) rather than fooling around with one ubuntu install, and trying to get a printer to play nice with the other windows installations, couldn't i install for instance VMWare on a platform of my choice (probably server 2003 /XP Pro), then set up some virtual machines, one for just printer sharing (in a windows environment), an ubuntu one for file sharing etc...? This is a sound reason for virtualization yuh-huh? Plus it means i can test it out of other PC's and then literally just move them above and/or backup where needed?

05-03-2008, 18:31	#1
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Virtualization home server questions... Right it struck me the other day (reading daveys thread) rather than fooling around with one ubuntu install, and trying to get a printer to play nice with the other windows installations, couldn't i install for instance VMWare on a platform of my choice (probably server 2003 /XP Pro), then set up some virtual machines, one for just printer sharing (in a windows environment), an ubuntu one for file sharing etc...? This is a sound reason for virtualization yuh-huh? Plus it means i can test it out of other PC's and then literally just move them above and/or backup where needed? __________________

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