How many Virtual Machines do you have?

In Win8 with vmware ws 9 have:
Win 7 ent x64
Win 7 lite i386 (build myself)
Win 7 lite x64 (build myself)
Win 2008 r2 server
Win 2012 Server
Win xp lite (build myself)
Win nt4 sp6
Msdos
win 2003 server r2 i386 and x64.

In Hyperv of server 2012:
Win Server 2008 r2
Win Server 2012

 

Why do you have a lot of VMs like that? To do what?

 

VMware® Workstation 9.0.0 build-812388
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Mac OS X Server 10.6.8
Mac OS X 10.7.4
Mac OS X 10.8.2
Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000 Pro SP4
Windows XP Tablet PC 2005 SP3
Windows Server 2003 Ent R2 SP2
Windows 7 Ult SP1 x64
Windows Server 2008 Ent R2 SP1 x64
Windows 8 Ent x64

Microsoft Virtual PC 6.0.210.0
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 98

 

Before I use it to test my own software written in c#, now is useful for legacy software, learning applications and make experiments before install in real pc.

 

I use VMs for just Testing new software, new activators

 

and how many do you actually ever use?

 

Are you using Windows 98 for testing something or just playing?

 

HOST :
HW : i7-920, 24G Ram
OS : 2008r2 + Hyper-V

vm1 : 2008r2 - ON - AD, Cert SRV
vm2 : 2008r2 - ON - exchange 2010, sql 2008, Internet DNS SRV
vm3 : 2008r2 - ON - http, ftp, sip, antivirus email gateway
vm4 : 2008r2 - ON - TMG 2010 for 1st broadband
vm5 : 2008r2 - ON - TMG 2010 for 2nd broadband
vm6 : 2008r2 - ON - misc SRV

vm7 : 2008r2 - OFF - BitTorrent
vm8 : XP - OFF - Testing
vm9 : win7 - OFF - Testing
vm10: 2008r2 - OFF - Testing

 

I use VMware mostly to test and run some databases and special applications at my work.

 

I have two new VMs: Linux Mint 13 Maya (it's great) and Windows 8 Pro x64

 

3* Windows 2000 Server (1- Active Directory, 2- Web server, 3- File server)
1*Windows XP
2*Windows 2003 Standard (1- AD/FS, 2- SQL Server 2005)
2*Windows Server 2008 (not R2) -> 1-AD/FS, 2- SharePoint Server 2007)
1*Windows Vista Bussines
1*Windows 7 Pro
1*ubuntu 12.04
2*Linux Mint 13 Xfce

And this is everything for VirtualLab and advanced sonfiguration tutorials (with 16gigs of RAM and quadcore i5-3550 I can run 4 VMs parallel)

 

One more: MacOSX Lion VM. Hihi, I've succeeded in installing MacOSX 10.7 on my notebook. It's not difficult and everything is working well and also fast, including network, sound, video, shared folders, fullscreen mode, USB storage access.

 

On my MacBook Pro, I'm using Parallels 8 to virtualize Window 8, Ubuntu 12.04 and Android.

 

Hihi, this is my updated list:

Windows XP Pro SP3
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
Windows 8 Pro x64
Ubuntu 12.04 x86
Linux Mint 13 x86
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (with Xcode 4.5.2)

I'm going to have Mac OS X 10.6 with Xcode v3.2.6 soon

 

My updated lists on May 2016:

Windows XP Pro SP3
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
Windows 10 Pro x64 (new)
Ubuntu 14.04 (new)
Mac OS X 10.11 (new)
Android-x86 (new)

 

Currently 29. Plus (sometimes, up to) 2 BOINC tasks.

 

none for me.

 

xp sp3 and ubuntu 16x on my main win10 x64 box

pfsense 2.3.5 (router/dhcp), ipfire (vpn gateway), and working on getting open media vault going on my old pc

 

VirtualBox:
metasploitable2 and various ctf type vms
windows 10 legit
a base centos 7 installation I clone for test machines
random centos 7 test machines
a base windows 7 unactivated instance I use for testing things
boot2docker instance
raspberry pixel image cause it's fun to play with

 

41 VM's Windows - Server - Linux...
VMWare Workstation 12 on Windows Ultimate 7.
4770K 32GB Ram On Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1
(8 on SSD and 33 on WD Red.)