Steven wrote: > Hey some of this stuff is going over my head. I use a Mac Intel > machine at > work and have several Windows XP virtual machine I use with VMWare. > My home > machine however is a different animal. It is a Dell machine running > Vista. > There have been some comments here about running virtual machines > with no > mention on which operating system. The only one I know that can run > different OSs is a Mac. Can I do the same on a Window machine and > just boot > up one or the other? This is new stuff to me so I'm in discovery > mode.
You can dual boot Windows and Linux on a Wintel machine. You can't boot Mac OS on anything but an Apple computer. A virtual machine isn't dual booting, as you know. On a Windows computer if you want to run Linux in a virtual machine, you can use VMware in its various permutations, VirtualBox, and Parallels (I think--it did have a Windows version but I don't know if development has continued). You may be able to get a Linux OS into Microsoft's free Virtual PC, but it doesn't work well. Better to use Virtual Box or VMware. Under Linux you can run VirtualPC and VMware, possibly a couple of others that are obscure. I think there was talk of Parallels for Linux but I don't know if that ever got off the ground. QEMU used to be an option under Linux, but I don't know if development is still continuing. I used to run Win 98SE under QEMU on Linux but newer kernels created problems. I don't currently have any virtual machines under Linux. --Judy Miner USA
