Well, it's a good environment to get your hands dirty, but it's not quite the same since it's entirely virtualized.  There are quite a few things you can't do in a virtualized session such as virtualization technologies.

If you just want to fiddle with it to touch it, you're fine.  If you want to learn about operating it on a computer, it's not.

--Dan

On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:33 PM, mike enriquez wrote:

> I have a VMWare computer running Red Hat Linux.
> 
> Talking to some Linux people, I learned  this is common.
> 
> What are the Pros and Cons of running Linux on a virtual machine?
> 
> What do you think?  All comments will be appreciated?
> 
> It seems like  lot of extra work to me but I am newbie.
> 
> What do I know?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Mike Enriquez
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