Virtual machines

[bergfly]

The question is, do you want to still use the host box as your primary
desktop, with some VM for testing/playing. For that  purposes, to play
around with the new version of Ubuntu and maybe some legacy windows stuff, I
would recommend Virtual Box. Everything you need is in the repositories and
there is tonnes of support on the forums and as long as you have ok spec on
the host machine it should be fine. I have a 3 year old laptop that I do
exactly this with, testing new versions of Ubuntu or doing some windows work
on the corporate domain. Works well for those purposes, but gets a little
stressed once I start running more than a few applications in a
hosted environment - (memory and CPU constraints, not a virtual host
software problem)

For a real virtualisation, where the host OS does nothing other than drive
the Virtual machines, I have had good experience with VMWARE


On 6 February 2011 16:14, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi all -- I am about to try some virtual machines in Ubuntu -- so my
> questuion is : which  one is the best?
> Xen --- VirtualBox    --  VM   --  kvm  --  Qemu???
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> I am going to put XP on it and Ubuntu11.04
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> Doug
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