Travel Technology - Question about VM Fusion on a Mac Book

Im running XP in VM Fusion on my MB Air. From reading the online docs it seems as if you can run multiple OSs in multiple virtual machines. Is this true? Has anyone run VM Fusion with XP and Linux in different virtual machines? If so any recommendations of which Linux to use? I was considering either Ubuntu or Fedora Core but am completely open to suggestions. My other Linux distros are either RHE or Fedora Core but Im starting to like Ubuntu. Thanks for any suggestions.

I don't think you can run more than one at a time though. When you start up it makes you select one.

You can certainly set up multiple VMs to choose from, different variants of Windows, Linux, whatever. You will quickly run out of disk space on MacBook Air unless you're toting a USB drive to store them on or keep them to really small partition limits. ;) Fusion seems to be smart enough to only use the actual amount of space taken up: for example, I allocated 10GB to a Windows XP VM, but it only takes up about 4GB of disk space right now. But you'll still use up plenty if you pile on several VMs, and there just isn't that much spare space on the Air.

I don't think you can run more than one at a time though. When you start up it makes you select one.

You can certainly set up multiple VMs to choose from, different variants of Windows, Linux, whatever. You will quickly run out of disk space on MacBook Air unless you're toting a USB drive to store them on or keep them to really small partition limits. ;) Fusion seems to be smart enough to only use the actual amount of space taken up: for example, I allocated 10GB to a Windows XP VM, but it only takes up about 4GB of disk space right now. But you'll still use up plenty if you pile on several VMs, and there just isn't that much spare space on the Air.

Thanks. I just want one more and I dont need to run them at the same time. I just find that Linux seems to do better ssh'ing into a Linux server and displaying graphics on the local machine than does Mac OS. It would also be a better environment for testing some things than Mac OS since that version of Unix has a few quirks.

you should be able to use multiple VMs at the same time. I have done this plenty of times with Paralalls and with VMware on a PC. havent used Fusion too much, but i cant imagine that it wouldnt let you open more than one.

I have run multiple VMs simultaneously on a MacBook Pro using Fusion. You can start them up from the Virtual Machine Library window. Works fine, assuming you have enough memory.

Thanks for clarifying the simultaneous use. I find one is bad enough for me, but I only have 1.5GB of RAM. ;) Actually, I think the times when the PowerBook is most sluggish is when the VM is starting up. Of course, while I'm waiting for it to start I want to do something else, and anything I try to do seems to take forever. Other than that it's not too bad. I don't need it enough to leave it running all the time.