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    VirtualBox

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by mattireland, Sep 17, 2007.

  1. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Just trying this. It allows you to run Linux and Windows on a machine at the same time without duel-booting or partitioning. You can switch between the two without losing any data or rebooting in three seconds flat! Also allows you to store data in both OSs onto disk... Sorry I can't go into more detail - I'm in a big rush!

    I think it's brilliant. What do you guys think?
     
    mattireland, Sep 17, 2007
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  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    I personally use VMWare on my work laptop here. But I don't think VirtualBox gives you direct hardware access under the guest OS, so it's not quite the same as running Linux directly on your machine. There are a number of things that will run slower, and there are a number of things that just won't work right, like 3D acceleration.
     
    Pitabred, Sep 17, 2007
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  3. Paul

    Paul Mom! Hot Pockets! NBR Reviewer

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    Virtualization is pretty old and pretty common. I used to use VMware to test out Linux in my early days.
     
    Paul, Sep 17, 2007
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  4. tripinva

    tripinva Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    I used VMWare and didn't like being stuck on a proprietary product, so I moved to KVM. KVM was nice, but was missing USB support. So I moved to VirtualBox, which is not open-source (some of it is, some is not) but whatever.

    I find it to work pretty well. I rather like Virtual Box.

    - Trip
     
    tripinva, Sep 19, 2007
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  5. yin

    yin Notebook Consultant

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    I'm actually torn between VirtualBox and VMWare Server. Both are really nice, and both allow USB support. VirtualBox was way easier to get started, but I think VMWare allows more access to hardware (like number of processors to use, etc.) I think I'll stick to VirtualBox though, if I'm going to do a clean install again.
     
    yin, Sep 19, 2007
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