On 03/22/2013 12:44 PM, David & Tina Ohlemacher wrote: > I would recommend: > - Install VMWare player (free) or Virtual Box (free/open). > - Try distros within virtual machines. You may install directly from > an iso, no disks to burn. > - Check out distrowatch.com <http://distrowatch.com> > > Personally: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE w/ XFCE). It is not > Ubuntu based as is regular Mint. It is a rolling distro, which I like. > Settting up a VM for Linux is pretty simple, and I agree with you here. You don't need a large machine for running virtual servers. For instance, my Acer Aspire One netbook with an Atom processor and 1GB of memory is running Linux Mint14 with VirtualBox as the VMM, and Windows XP and Ubuntu 12.10 as the guest OS. Virtual Box and VMWare Player both work well under Windows. Just one caveat. If you can turn on virtualization support in the BIOS you will get better performance. It is off by default on all systems I am aware of. Nearly all desktop systems today have virtualization support , but many laptops do notr.
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