amigadave wrote:
Do any of you have answers or advice for me? I have looked around Online and found some resources for setting up VMware on XP Pro and on Linux, but none of them made a recommendation as to which OS is best for the Host OS.
Neither of them. The best solution would be ESXi which has been released as freeware this year. ESXi is a true type 1 hypervisor which means that it runs directly on the hardware without having a slow OS underneath. The guest systems will run significantly faster than on the hosted VMware products (like the VMware player or server). However, you will need another machine that runs the VMware infrastructure client to administrate the ESXi server. And you have to be lucky that your hardware is supported. ESXi is only certified for a number of server systems. I did manage to install it on desktop hardware in the past though.
