Virtual box is okish, but when you're looking for semi decent perf I wouldn't bother.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Clark Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:17 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives +1 VirtualBox. On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Adrian Halid <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Virtual Box is also another free alternative. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Regards Adrian Halid Senior Analyst/Programmer IT Vision Australia Pty Ltd (ABN: 34 309 336 904) PO Box 881, Canning Bridge WA 6153 Level 3, Kirin Centre, 15 Ogilvie Road, Applecross, WA, 6153 P: (08) 9315 7000 F: (08) 9315 7088 E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> W: http://www.itvision.com.au<http://www.itvision.com.au/> ___________________________________________________________ NOTICE : This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any unauthorised review, use, alteration, disclosure or distribution of this e-mail (including any attachments) by an unintended recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender as soon as possible by return e-mail and then delete both messages. ___________________________________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Chris Walsh Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 1:05 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: RE: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives Why not use the XP Mode<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx> functionality in Win7? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Thursday, 7 April 2011 3:03 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: [OT] Virtual machine alternatives Folks, I'm just building a new machine for my wife. She needs Win7 as the boot OS and XP virtualised. I was wondering what choices I have for virtualising and avoiding problems with mouse jitter and video performance in the virtual OS. I ask because early last year I had to drop VMWare Server because of mouse, sound and video performance problems with XP. I moved to WMWare Player and the sound and video problems seem to be solved. Microsoft VM is also a contender I suppose, but I haven't used it for a couple of years. What's the latest recommendation for a home user machine with Win7 and virtual XP? Greg
