I totally agree with Tourettes on this. I am however running 4 virtual machines with Virtualbox on my backend tvserver with no issues so its definately possible.
This is a flippin nightmare. It was OK for a while after I uninstalled Outpost and installed Comodo, but now I've installed VMware it's worse than ever.
If I disable the two NICs VMware installs, it's OK again, so it's definitely that.
Just an advice - do not try to use HTPC for anything else than media playback. VMWare has no function in HTPC if you are after quality playback.
I totally agree with Tourettes on this. I am however running 4 virtual machines with Virtualbox on my backend tvserver with no issues so its definately possible.