Look at VMware player for VMware product that can be installed on Linux or Windows and used to create and run virtual machines. Older versions did not support creating VMs, but the newer versions now allows this.
On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:23 AM, Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net> wrote:
> I've been using virtualbox for roughly 3 years or so for "production", and no complaints really. I was pleasantly surprised to find multi-monitor support is pretty good for using win7 inside a vm with several display windows on ubuntu even with quirky ati video an 6 monitors. I use virtualbox daily for work with an old xp build for visio and random obscure windoze software I need, and never had a problem with it.
>
> I'd originally moved to it because vmware server 2.x was/is a basketcase for usability on workstaitons in most cases, and there wasn't enough reason to continue to use keygen'd vmware workstation. Reason I wanted workstation was to try unity in the quest to have visio outside of xp (the only thing left I *really* need windoze for), and it simply never worked without crashing x horribly.
>
> I never looked back or was given reason to do so using virtualbox, other than personal distaste for larry ellison post oracle borging of sun...
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 10/23/2011 11:27 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>> Hello Hello,
>>
>> I have been a longtime user of VirtualBox for windows virtualization in
>> linux. I do not require a lot, I use it basically for testing web apps
>> in IE. I don't do Netflix or the sort, but my new Galaxy S has Netflix
>> on it, so I signed up for a free trial just to try it out on the phone.
>> Which got me playing with it in the virtual machine as well.
>>
>> With all the talk lately about VirtualBox being trash (new to me, like I
>> said, happy customer for years!) I decided I would look into other
>> things and see what I must be missing because apparently the product
>> that has worked so well for me these last several years is apparently
>> "junk"...
>>
>> I remember a while back I used Vmware Server which was free, but now I
>> see they have a couple different offerings.
>>
>> My question is, what do you use and why? Which Vmware product is best
>> for the basic usage I want and maybe trying Netflix in. My laptop has a
>> 40GB SSD so I am willing to give up a few gigs to a windows install
>> inside a vm, which I need for testing anyway, but I'm not about to
>> dual-boot.
>>
>> I appreciate your feed back.
>>
>> Nathan
>>
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