I recently bought a mini-ITX motherboard and tried to run VMWare's Workstation and Server and Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 beta. The host OS is Windows XP Pro. Although I can install VMWare and Virtual PC virtual machine programs on the host XP, I get the blue screen of death for any XP guest OS I tried to install. The blue screen crash is on the guest OS, not the host OS. The documentation for VMware and Virtual PC clearly states that these will run on x86 Intel and AMD CPU. Although the CPU on the mini-ITX motherboard is x86, this case it's a Via CN700 EBGA CPU and the motherboard is Via VT8237R Plus chipset purchased though mini-box.com, VMWare and Virtual PC do not work. The CPU clocks in at 1GHz and there is 1GB of DDR2 533MHz RAM.
This is a disappointment because I had been thinking of using this low-power consumption system to run my 24/7 web/FTP server. I plan to run the server with the virtual machine so that if there is a problem, I can fix it easier.
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