I have a host machine a windows XP machine.I have installed a VM that has fedora 16 installed into it and it already takes around 8MB of my ram.So the question is if I want to have multiple virtual machines with different distros of linux what should be my ideal approach.

I have a 3.23GB of RAM and a harddisk space of 60GB allocated for Linux.In this I want to run most of the distros.Also I need a link from where I can download most of the distros and try.Can you suggest which I should be trying the most.Thanks for all your inputs in advance.

Are you going to be multi-booting these other OSes with Windows, or are they going to be installed as VM's?

Depending on how many you'll be installing, 60GB is quite small and will install just about 5 to 7 distros with minimum installs. Again, it all depends on what you'll be doing. I have about 13 VM's with several distros installed in about 120GB, but then again, I don't have any additional apps installed in any of these.

You can find detailed info and download links for almost all of the distros at http://distrowatch.com.

Thanks Towheedm.I am isntalling multiple distros just to learn.These will be Vms.What I am worried is mainly the RAM.Wouls a 4GB ram be good.

It depends on the overhead of the Virtual Machine Manager. You should certainly be able to run at 1 or 2 VM usably with 4GB RAM. I have 1GB RAM, and using VMWARE's vmplayer as the VMM and for me I can only run 1 VM usably.

What VM are you using under Windows?

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Thanks towheedm.I appreciate your response.I will try it for my self with multiple distros installed.