Free VMWare server

I was initially really excited to see that this was a free product. It would solve a lot of my problems.

Having used it for almost a day (most of this time was spend waiting at an unreponsive computer) I have completely given up. My computer is completely unusable. It has 1GB of memory, and my machines were running on a second hard disk, so it should be able to run at least one other OS without causing too much difficulty. Not only does the emulated OS run quite slowly, but then my *real* machine ground to a halt as well.

It takes about half an hour to boot Windows Vista. Every key click takes about a minute to react. My mouse cursor (on my real OS) hangs.

This is totally unacceptable. What a pity I will never use this product again.