Which Guest OS to use on VPC 6.1.1 (or in future VPC 7.0)

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From: Aasdkllj Asdlkjlkj (alsdkj_at_asldkj.com)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:49:11 -0700

Hi there!

I am trying to decide which guest OS to run inside of my Virtual PC
6.1.1 on my Mac (Powerbook 1.5ghz). It would be used for demos of an
enterprise network solution only to run the server for the solution (app
and MySQL). I don't need to run a GUI in that Guest OS since the Mac can
connect to internal virtual PCs from it's own GUI web browsers. RAM for
the Mac (the host side) is not an issue now that I found a cheap
supplier that got me 2GB for a very good price. Unfortunately, I just
found out that Virtual PC for the Mac tops out at 512mb max to be
assigned to a guest OS. Blame Microsoft for that one! :-)

The kink in the plan is that the app is a server app that requires 1GB
of Ram to run, but can technically be used for demos at 512mb - but RAM
would be at a premium.

As a result, any thoughts on whether Red Hat Adv. Linux or MSFT Windows
XP, 2000, or 2003 would function better as a server in 512mb (with MySQL
and a JBOSS app with Apache, etc.) would be appreciated.

My original thoughts are that the battle would be between 2000
Workstation and Linux since XP and 2003 are both bloated with a lot of
extra stuff that the networking app doesn't need. Additionally, since
no GUI is necessary on the Guest box, only the app as a server, I was
thinking that Linux might be the fastest since it can be run in command
line only mode and thus save the weight of the GUI (of course, my
experience with Linux is much more limited than Windows).

Suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks,
Eric

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