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    What is your experience with Virtualization Software?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by aigle, Apr 20, 2006.

  1. aigle

    aigle Notebook Consultant

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    One of the relatively new and interesting softwares are virtualization softwares. From security point of view there are virtualization products that let you surf everywhere on the net without fear of getting something nasty on your system.

    On the other hand virtualization software has made possible to install one OS( guest OS) in another( host) OS without actually writing it to your HD. That makes it interesting. If you don't want to install a programme actually to your HD or for some reason you can't use your HD to install it, no problem, just install a virtualization software and install any other OS inside this without touching your HD. Recent success of Windows to run on Mac OS by this technique has caused a new stir in the world or virtualization software.

    Personally I have never tried any of these but I am highly interested to try it due to the fact that I want to try Linux on my PC and I can't use my HD for this purpose. There are live CDs but they are slow and moreover ordinarily it is not easy to make permanent changes in your linux OS using while using these live CDs. So personally at the moment I am looking for a virtualization software that I can use to run linux.

    In future, if ever, Apple gives permission to run Mac Os on non-Macs, again it will be a new stirr and many people will be interested to do so it on virtual machines( I read on some forum somebody doing it even now but I think at the moment it is not legal).

    I am sure many of the users here must have used one or more virtual machines and I want to know what was their experience. So the purpose of this thread is to get benefit from their experience, as all virtualization software are not same. One main thing is the speed of guest OS, if it is just near to native then it's fine but if it is slow, of course you are not going to enjoy the experience and different virtualization software have different ability in this regard.

    Another issue is how simple the software to use and still another is the stability and reliability of virtualization software. There must be many more points to consider but as I never used one so I am not sure what other things must be considered before making a choice in this regard.
    So I invite the members to write about there experience with different virtualization softwares they used. What was your experience? What is your favorite based on your experience and why? What is good for the beginner and what is good for the advanced user.
    I am discussing only windows related softwares.

    BTW I am putting a link to a comparison table from Wikipedia as well.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...rtual_machines
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    aigle, Apr 20, 2006
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    neenee Notebook Consultant

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    i have had good experiences with vmware on linux. allowed me
    to run windows for some windows-only 2D games i wished to
    play. 3D hardware acceleration was not available, but i did not
    need that anyway. sound was good. performance as well.
     
    neenee, Apr 20, 2006
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