On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Chris Jones wrote: >> Do either of those solutions allow you to throttle the virtual machines >> running under them? If so I can setup a Linux instance specifically to run >> a VAX emulator, and retire yet another system. > > Depends what you mean by throttle. I use VMware Fusion and with that you can > certainly limit the amount of RAM, or number of CPU cores each VM gets to > see. You can't (AFAIK) throttle them to only get x% of the available CPU > power for a given core (so for instance give one VM 1GHz worth of a 2.5GHz > core...). That was my fear. I'd like to be able to say that the instance gets 50% of one core. Though if I can at least limit it to running on a single core, that would help some. Thanks, Zane