[lug] Linux | VMware | Xen question..

[Tony Dyson]

Subjectively, I'd agree with that. Possibly it's because VMWare 
introduces a more effective HAL.

Other problems can be introduced though. Periodically VMWare locks my 
system completely. A couple of years ago I had a VM file corrupted after 
a lock-up. Since then I've disabled write-behind caching & that hasn't 
happened again.

It's worthwhile searching the VMWare support forums to see if there are 
known problems with the Linux version &/or hardware you want to use.

Jeff wrote:
> Ironically, I've found more often than not that Windows is more stable
> through VMWare than natively.