Virtualization

[Dazed_75]

I use VirtualBox on a couple of machines.  My primary ise is testing various
distributions.  I also use one virtual machine for isolating some club work
and one to test network booting via PXE.

Never had a problem with any of it.  I did use vmware once when building a
server with IPCOP in a VM.  It was ok, but once I tried VirtualBox, I never
looked back.  It was just easier,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Brian Weaver <bjweaver at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look at VMware player for VMware product that can be installed on Linux or
> Windows and used to create and run virtual machines. Older versions did not
> support creating VMs, but the newer versions now allows this.
>
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:23 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
> > I've been using virtualbox for roughly 3 years or so for "production",
> and no complaints really.  I was pleasantly surprised to find multi-monitor
> support is pretty good for using win7 inside a vm with several display
> windows on ubuntu even with quirky ati video an 6 monitors.  I use
> virtualbox daily for work with an old xp build for visio and random obscure
> windoze software I need, and never had a problem with it.
> >
> > I'd originally moved to it because vmware server 2.x was/is a basketcase
> for usability on workstaitons in most cases, and there wasn't enough reason
> to continue to use keygen'd vmware workstation.  Reason I wanted workstation
> was to try unity in the quest to have visio outside of xp (the only thing
> left I *really* need windoze for), and it simply never worked without
> crashing x horribly.
> >
> > I never looked back or was given reason to do so using virtualbox, other
> than personal distaste for larry ellison post oracle borging of sun...
> >
> > -mb
> >
> >
> > On 10/23/2011 11:27 PM, Nathan England wrote:
> >> Hello Hello,
> >>
> >> I have been a longtime user of VirtualBox for windows virtualization in
> >> linux. I do not require a lot, I use it basically for testing web apps
> >> in IE. I don't do Netflix or the sort, but my new Galaxy S has Netflix
> >> on it, so I signed up for a free trial just to try it out on the phone.
> >> Which got me playing with it in the virtual machine as well.
> >>
> >> With all the talk lately about VirtualBox being trash (new to me, like I
> >> said, happy customer for years!) I decided I would look into other
> >> things and see what I must be missing because apparently the product
> >> that has worked so well for me these last several years is apparently
> >> "junk"...
> >>
> >> I remember a while back I used Vmware Server which was free, but now I
> >> see they have a couple different offerings.
> >>
> >> My question is, what do you use and why? Which Vmware product is best
> >> for the basic usage I want and maybe trying Netflix in. My laptop has a
> >> 40GB SSD so I am willing to give up a few gigs to a windows install
> >> inside a vm, which I need for testing anyway, but I'm not about to
> >> dual-boot.
> >>
> >> I appreciate your feed back.
> >>
> >> Nathan
> >>
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