VMWare and Virtualbox should both work well. -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) jd@twingeckos.com On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:38 AM, keith smith wrote: > Hi, > > As you might recall I had ordered an HP laptop and after the input from > the PLUG list I decided to cancel that order and buy a Dell 660. It is a > i5 with 8MB of RAM. > > I hope to use that box to replace the two laptops I currently use to do > LAMP dev. The laptop I use for my desktop is running windows. The other > laptop is running CentoOS 6. I migrated to laptops because of the heat my > two mini-towers were putting out. It does make a difference. > > I would like to configure the i5 with Linux to uses as my desktop and 2 > virtual machines to use as 1) Windows so I have access to those things > windows can only do like IE, and 2) a LAMP server running CentOS. > > I was thinking as a base Kubuntu and I am not sure which way to go with > visualization? > > Also if I do not register the windows that come with this box and load > Linux immediately do you know if I can find a Win 8 image that I can load > into a VM and use my registration key with? > > I am very new to visualization so any advice you offer will be a big help!! > > Thanks!! > > Keith > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >