Ubuntu, VMware and Graphics applications

I have had an excellent experience running Ubuntu under VMPlayer on XP as my development webserver. It's faster than WAMP and easily transportable.

So, when it came to rebooting Merles Dell 1330 which has had consistent networking issues with Vista I thought, hell, we could have Ubuntu running on the wee guy and Vista running as a guest under VM.


This would have the benefit of the guest being easily back-up-able with the apps installed and transportable across computers.

Turns out that is good in theory and not in practice, mainly because running graphics apps is so ram hungry (I think). Vista with apps took up over 20gb and was crazy slow.

So it is back to Vista, a shame because Ubuntu 8.10 was amazing. It recognised all the hardware first go and was a fast joy to use.