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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