I second Jerry's tip on turning on virtualization in the BIOS, if possible. Do it before setting up Virtual Box or VMware Player.
My Fedora is a vm in Virtual Box under W8 (I had to have W as a backup for wife's dying laptop running Vista). I can jack up the RAM to 32GB and run a whole bunch of vm's in it. Also playing Real Soon Now with how the KVM stuff works in RHEL 6.4. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > 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. > > -- > Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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