OT: Windows Virtual Machine Software

[Michael Butash]

My work laptop was windoze originally, and ran ubuntu 12.04 under 
virtualbox.  It was iffy for real use in my case running ubuntu desktop 
inside of it.

My intent was trying to basically full screen and forget windoze was 
there.  Not so much, tons of quirks, especially using dual display 
output on it (that works well better using winxp atop linux in vbox). 
Wasn't usable really as a full desktop overlay, especially with compiz. 
  It needed disabled to metacity, otherwise freaking out randomly with 
flickers and such.

If you desktop instance is more of an app server for certain things, 
probably ok doing so.  Same I keep windoze around for visio only.  I 
have ubuntu test vm's like that with certain gui app suites/services 
preinstalled, but none I use extensively, especially with win as a base.

Well better off using linux as the host, and win as a guest, especially 
with seamless mode, it's pretty good under linux.  Unless you want the 
touchscreen stuff, win8 seems pretty annoying for anything but fingers 
(apparently they didn't learn from unity).

-mb


On 08/14/2013 09:06 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Ill have to second VirtualBox
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley at yahoo.com
> <mailto:trent_shipley at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have a Windows 8 laptop on order.
>
>     I would like to run Ubuntu as a guest on a virtual machine.  What
>     are some good candidates?  It doesn't have to be free, but VMware
>     for Workstations would be overkill at this point.  Is Oracle still
>     developing Virtual Box?
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