In the blue corner....

A couple of weeks ago one infrastructure guy was making very positive noises about VMWare and as I was going to do a server rebuild I thought I would try out this new fangled virtualisation software. In looking this up I came across Microsoft's virtual server product - and being from the same home as the operating system (and also free) I thought I would give it a go.

I installed Microsoft virtual server, and to be honest I wasn't impressed. I guess it did the job it was supposed to, however the user interface seemed like an afterthought.

So off with Microsoft virtual server and on with VMWare. I was instantly impressed, the user interface is so much better. I then created a couple of virtual shells and installed Windows server 2003 in one, and Linux (Ubuntu) in the other.

Good job VMWare!