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I just purchased vmware workstation 7 and I am trying to decide what the best host is. I will be running both windows, Linux, etc... I was hoping to go with the most stable and lean is and that is pointing towards ubuntu.

Does anyone have any experience with either or? any suggestions would be great and my linux skills are entry level but I always like to learn so I'm ready for the challenge. Thanks

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Off-topic on account of it being a request to help out with shopping – random♦ Oct 11 '10 at 22:54
Drewdin, see meta for comments regarding moderation, rather than posting them here. There is already a corresponding meta thread for your question. meta.superuser.com/questions/1557/… – Brad Oct 12 '10 at 2:47
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Thanks Brad, I tried to add a commend but I dont have the rep yet. I read sasha's response and if he read past the first line of my question he would have seen that I was asking for the best host that was lean and stable. Something that I could count on for running multiple VM's without wondering if virus software and viruses would kill. As I am a Linux rookie I dont know where to start or which os to try. I guess sasha has nothing to do all day but close threads. Thanks for your help Brad – Drewdin Oct 12 '10 at 14:37
So now that I have some time under my belt, having a lunix host and windows VM's runs wayyyyy better that a windows 7 host and ubuntu Vms – Drewdin Mar 2 '11 at 1:01
Indeed, the SO and the world would be nicer if people were able to read past the first sentence. – maaartinus Apr 24 '11 at 13:38
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I have ran VMware Workstation 6.5 on Windows XP, Vista and 7, along with various version of Ubuntu all without any issues that I can recall.

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What's your host os? – Drewdin Oct 10 '10 at 17:36
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While I haven't done any host comparisons, I've certainly had no difficulty running VMWare on Windows. Works great and is nice and fast. I run Ubuntu, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and a few others all hosted under Windows XP.

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I was thinking of running ubuntu 64 bit as the host os. Any pluses or negatives that you can think of? I know with windows all the update and virus software can be a pain. Thanks – Drewdin Oct 10 '10 at 17:34
I am not shopping, im trying to install the right version of Linux as a host OS. I wish i knew how to send people messages. Im pissed – Drewdin Oct 12 '10 at 1:59
@Drewdin: I can't add an answer, as the question has been closed. Depending on your needs, I would have used VMware ESXi instead, which is free. It's a Type 1 hypervisor that runs on bare-metal (not hosted). I have a HP ProLiant pedestal server that I bought especially for ESXi. It even has a USB port on the motherboard for ESXi. The newer G7 generation have ESXi embedded on SD cards. – paradroid Oct 12 '10 at 3:43
@jason404, thanks for the info. I have a server that I am going to try out ESXi on. Thanks for the help! – Drewdin Oct 12 '10 at 14:27
@Drewdin: A caveat is that ESXi runs only on certain hardware, so check the whitelist. – paradroid Oct 12 '10 at 14:57
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