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 virtualization solution you choose. Rony -----Original Message----- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of David Suna Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:53 AM To: linux-il Subject: Virtualization recommendation 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. Thanks, -- David Suna da...@davidsconsultants.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
