Five VMs and Then Some - I Love It When a System Works Like This

[NoelC]

I'm running a productivity-tweaked Windows 8.1 system on my desktop workstation (Dell Precision T5500, well-equipped).

 

Because I wanted to prepare similar desktop screen grabs, I decided to boot up 5 different versions of Windows in virtual machines (using VMware Workstation 10), start a few applications in each, and grab the screens.  These are not small, insignificant VMs.  Most have 8 GB of RAM and 4 virtual processors.

 

I haven't gotten a single complaint or a hint of lag out of my system, which is running on the same boot from a week ago and having done heavy duty stuff every day (yesterday I was doing 3D rendering). 

 

With 32 bit XP and Vista, and 64 bit Win 7, 8.1, and 10 running in VMs, I still have 8 GB of my 48GB of system RAM available, and everything - including Pandora playing music - is smooth as butter.  I even have Subversion Server, Photoshop and a whole bunch of other applications running.  CPU usage is whopping 2%. 

 

I love it when a system really works right like this.  I have achieved the setup I dreamt about for decades.

 

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Win81/HostDesktop.png

 

 

If you're curious, here are the five VM screen grabs.  Note that they're all taken a few seconds apart:

 

XP:

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/WinXPProductiveDesktop.png

 

Vista:

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/WinVistaProductiveDesktop.png

 

Win 7:

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Win7ProductiveDesktop.png

 

Win 8.1:

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Win8ProductiveDesktop.png

 

Win 10:

http://Noel.ProDigitalSoftware.com/ForumPosts/Win10ProductiveDesktop.png

 

-Noel

 

 

 

Edit:  Corrected loss of the last character in the subject

Edited November 29, 2014 by NoelC