Virtual Box works quite well, will even load VMWare images, and VMWare
Player is free for windows and Linux (but not Mac for some reason), but has
a lot fewer options than VMWare worksation.

Phil Waclawski


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@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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