My subjective experience of virtualbox is that the performance (with windows as the host OS) is not as good as vmware or virtualpc. I've not tried it with Linux as the host.
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:26 PM, t35t0r <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Though off topic from Alex's post, you should look at virtualization >> (under Windows I assume for you) as a great way to get at learning >> linux! >> >> http://www.vmware.com/freedownload/login.php?product=server20 > > I highly recommend virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org . It's like > VMWare workstation but free (run windows in linux)! If you use it > under linux with freenx-server you can login to your VM console from > any system that has an NX client. I haven't tried 2.1 yet but > supposedly it has bridging working properly so that you can put your > VM on the WAN or talk to your VM within the VM NAT (other than just by > using the shared folder feature which worked before 2.1). > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
