I just ordered a new 8x core Xeon machine for doing scientific computing under linux. I'd like to run Windows Server 2008 but virtualize Ubuntu sessions since I also have some instrumentation work to ...

You don't have to look far in tech news to see that virtualization has become a big deal. After all, computers continue to become faster and more powerful, and as they do, the services that run on ...

It should bootup and run fine. You might have to tell Xorg to use the vmware driver instead of whatever you're using now but the rest should be fine. After that you ...