VMWare Workstation doesn't even need a dual-core CPU. But it can take advantage of a CPU with a hypervisor if it has one. Obviously, the more cores, the more the hypervisor can do. I am not 100% certan that if you have Workstation on a quad-core CPU, you can run your host OS and 3 VMs and have each run on its own core. I'm not sure it works that way. But I'd hope so. I know ESXI works that way. I'll bet a dual-core Intel CPU would run a host OS and one VM faster than a quad-core AMD CPU. But its anybody's guess what would happen if you started up a second VM. I might be willing to live with it slowing down though the rare occasions where I start up more than one VM. This is a home PC. I could end up doing almost anything on it. I do the usual sskype, email, web browsing. But I've done some parallelized coding. And then I still have some fantasies bout teaching myself something about Windows networking by creating several Windows virtual machines and networking them. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:07 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] cpu recommendation I'm an intel man myself. I like the I7 which I use in my Macs and on the server side we have some decent Xeon quad core stuff going on in some dell boxes. Is the virtual machines / VMware the heaviest source of load, what else will you be doing with the box? On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:39 PM, John G. Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
I need to buy a new mobo, CPU, and RAM before December 31. Any recommendations on a CPU? I intend to run linux with Windows running in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine. Sometimes I run 2 or 3 vms at once so I'd prefer a qua-core CPU.
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