Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Dotan Shavit
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, 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

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread raz ben yehuda
I have a linux linux installed and have a vmware guest as windows. I managed to run wifi sound this way. what is the purpose of your laptop ? On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:53 +0300, David Suna wrote: I just bought a new Gateway laptop that comes with Windows Vista (and a free upgrade to Windows

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
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

Re: For webmaster of linux.org.il

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Hi everyone, I see its not yet fixed. Who is actually responsible for the site / domain ? Cheers, Miki -- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
If your primary OS is the Linux one, then I recommend installing it as a host and use VirtualBox ( basically because its so easy to use ) If you intend to play 3D games on win7 then note that it wont work on a vitalized OS. In my case I just created a separated portion just for win7 / games. As

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/15 Michael Ben-Nes mich...@epoch.co.il: If your primary OS is the Linux one, then I recommend installing it as a host and use VirtualBox ( basically because its so easy to use ) I used VirtualBox on Ubuntu 32 bit to install Windows XP, just to try to see if Skype 4 for windows will work

RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread ronys
Hi, Here's another vote for VirtualBox. Using it in both Windows host / Linux guest, Linux(64bit) / Linux(32bit) and Linux / Windows. Integration with host is excellent. Support is also quick responsive. You might want to make sure your laptop has a healthy amount of RAM, regardless of the

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, 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

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread David Suna
4GB should be enough. Right? David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com ronys wrote: Hi, Here's another vote for VirtualBox. Using it in both Windows host / Linux guest, Linux(64bit) / Linux(32bit) and Linux / Windows. Integration with host is excellent. Support is also quick responsive.

RE: RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread ronys
Hi, If you're going to run no more than one or two VMs simultaneously, the 4GB should be fine. Rony -Original Message- From: David Suna [mailto:da...@davidsconsultants.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:27 PM To: ro...@acm.org Cc: 'linux-il' Subject: Re: RE: Virtualization

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
For me it works well with: Ubuntu host + winXP 1GB guest + win7 1.5GB guest ( at the same time ). -- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread sara fink
you need to have the virtualbox-bin to have support for usb. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/9/15 Michael Ben-Nes mich...@epoch.co.il: If your primary OS is the Linux one, then I recommend installing it as a host and use VirtualBox (

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, Depends. Both Ubuntu and RedHat push KVM as the virtualization solution. IMHO it is the fastest from the three. It is also most open one. The free version of VirtualBox has no USB support but has excellent 3D support, so it is ideal for games. VMWare is ok, but I don't like it's integration

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Ohad Levy
I'm using VMPlayer with Ubuntu running windows in a virtual machine and I didn't need to do anything special to get audio running I also like it very much that you can resize on the fly the virtual client, very useful if you need to connect your server to an external beamer for presentations etc.

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/16 sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com: you need to have the virtualbox-bin to have support for usb. Where do you get it? I see only virtualbox-ose on Ubuntu 9.04, which is 2.1.4. On virtualbox.org there are later version 3.0.6 but nothing mentions virtualbox-bin. --Amos

Re: [!! SPAM] RE: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/16 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com: Hi, Depends. Both Ubuntu and RedHat push KVM as the virtualization solution. IMHO it is the fastest from the three. It is also most open one. Yes. We use xen heavily on CentOS 5 at work and am pretty excited that RH 5.4 is out with KVM preview

Re: Virtualization recommendation

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
Try here:http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads -- Michael Ben-Nes - Internet Consultant and Director. http://www.epoch.co.il - weaving the Net. Cellular: 054-4848113 -- On Wed, Sep 16, 2009