On Tuesday 15 September 2009 08:53:23 David Suna wrote: > I just bought a new Gateway laptop that comes with Windows Vista (and a > free upgrade to Windows 7). I want to be able to run both Linux (Ubuntu > is my preferred distribution) and Windows (Vista for now, Windows 7 in > the future) using virtualization. I have not gotten into virtualization > until now so I wanted recommendations about how to go about doing this. > > >From what I have read so far I have the following options: > > 1. Host on Windows using VMWare (either VMware Player or Workstation) > > 2. Host on Windows using Microsoft Virtual PC > > 3. Host on Linux using VMWare, Xen etc but then I have to deal with > installing Windows since the laptop comes with it but does not have > separate installation disks > > > Recommendations for or against any of the above or information about > other options that I left out would be appreciated. >
You can also use VirtualBox on either Windows or Linux (or some other systems): http://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox is open-source and as opposed to Xen does not require a hypervisor to run as the base OS. I've been successfully using VBox to run various versions of Linux, and a Windows XP SP 3 VM, and also was able to run the PC- BSD installer (but the installation failed due to the lack of the second .iso). It seems very nice so far. So far, I got the best integration from the Win XP (ironically), after I installed the host extensions, and the worst from a Fedora VM, where I still have to work with a 800*600 resolution due to lack of support from it. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il