Visual Studio and VMWare Server

[BlueTec]

I want to know if the Aspire One is powerfull enough to run vmware server and/or visual studio 2008.
For some reason I just can't believe this small PC is able to run applications like these.

Anybody any experience?

 

[BlueTec]

No developpers using the Aspire One?

 

[Sid]

Can you post the minimum spec' machine required to run those?

 

[jackluo923]

Um, define "powerfull enough"

Acer Aspire will run Vmware server beautifully if you only run 1 virtual machine. Just make sure you have 1-1.5GB of ram. AAO isn't "powerfull enough" to run 5-10 virtual machine at the same time mainly due to RAM limitation.

Visual Studio 2008 will run smoothly on this as well as .net framework .etc. Average startup time is under 5 seconds.

 

[BlueTec]

Thx !,

1 or 2 VMs are enough.

I just placed the order for my aspire one

 

[goalkeepr]

The only problem I've found is the 600px vertical resolution makes coding difficult, especially when you have the warnings window up!

 

[duclee]

i cant get free pascal work as normaly on this aa1
it does take me about 30s to compile the simple .pas file
even when i install fpc on ramdisk and put the source code on that also, it s still slow

 

[nighthawk]

I just use it to remote desktop/terminal server/citrix to my dev server and that works a treat