[michal]

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.

[michal]

Thanks for reply, I’ll try it.

[michal]

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.

[michal]

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.

[michal]

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%.

[michal]

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.

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