Slow VMware = Poor Design (Score 1)

All of the arguments that I have read on this thread about VMware having poor performance are laughable at best. I don't mean to disrespect anyone, but running VMWare Workstaton on your laptop or desktop PC with a single hard drive is ALWAYS going to have poor performance. Remember - you have two operating systems that are trying to access the same drive. That is a good example of I/O contention. VMWare workstation was never tuned to provide top performance. Running it on a box with good I/O bandwidth and memory will help to mask this. VMware server products (especially ESX), running on REAL server hardware (that is designed properly for VMWare) will perform much better than you think. This is why businesses across the planet are consolidating their servers, with a 20:1 ratio being pretty normal.