What virtualization machine is the best for running XP 64 on WS08 R2 64? I will run mainly Firefox on the guest OS, no games nor multimedia. Later I’ll probably run Debian as well, so I’m deciding between VMware Player and VirtualBox.
Thanks for reply, I’ll try it.
Your PC is powerful enough to run this OS smoothly for sure.
I can’t answer you to your second question. Personally I don’t think there is any big difference between running x86 apps on x86 and x64 Windows.
In my case both the files pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys don’t exist. I simply got rid of them.
I don’t use the paging file because of my experience with Win XP. After disabling it my computer became much faster.
For watching 1080p Youtube videos I recommend using 64 bit Flash player. I found the CPU usage went down from 60%/20% to 50%/20%.
Hi,
From now on there are at least three of us. I have just installed WS 2008 R2 Enterprise and I have to say it’s the best OS from Microsoft.