Comments on: Building a perfect Windows XP virtual machine template (VMware Workstation 6.5)

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:59:14 +0000

Good post, however, I would have liked it more if you provided reasoning behind some things.. I don’t like taking someones advice blindly without them telling me *why* it should be done (ie: No page file is a perfect example).

Thanks

By: Heiko

Heiko — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:48:14 +0000

Omar, thanks for your compliment. I have been busy writing a post concerning optimizing Windows 2008 to use within VMware Workstation, but the draft version got lost, and I haven't had the time to re-write it. Nontheless, I want to point you to some other blog about optimizing Windows 2008 for VMware ESX, with some really usefull tips on how to speed up the OS and remove some unwanted stuff. It's written by Jeremy Waldrop and can be found here: http://jeremywaldrop.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/how-to-build-a-windows-2008-vmware-esx-vm-template/

By: Omar Shraim

Omar Shraim — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:56:23 +0000

This tutorial is truly great and useful. It would be great if you could do the same for building the perfect Windows2003/2008 VM as that is what most us developers use for our development VM machines.

Thank you for a truly useful and practical walk-through

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