[JD Austin]

VMWare and Virtualbox should both work well.

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On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:38 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> 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
>
>
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