VirtualBox

[Liam Proven]

On 5 August 2014 15:33, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, Liam.  Bottom posting ceased to be the email norm a long time ago.

Not on mailing lists, happily.

Personally I read from the top of the page to the bottom, so I
bottom-quote; perhaps you do not. :¬)

I know that poor-quality proprietary tools like Outlook can't handle
it well, but then, are we not all FOSS users here?

> With current hardware, virtualization has become commonplace in commercial
> computing.  As a software developer (40+ years), I need to be able to run
> clients and servers of multiple OSs to develop and test my work.  I can not
> afford to reboot to switch OSs and I often need multiple VMs running at the
> same time.  VirtualBox is easy.  I currently have 1 Windows and 4 Linux VMs
> running on a Ubuntu host i5 machine with 8 GB RAM and 2 TB of disk.  I can
> add and remove guest VMs quickly and easily.  I can also save unused VMs and
> restore them as needed.

I am not sure what you're saying here; it doesn't seem to be a reply
to my point?

I am not arguing against VBox -- indeed right now I am defending it in
a thread over on the Ubuntu Server list. But I don't see it as a
replacement for running OSes on the bare metal.

If, for instance, I want to run a current game -- something I very
rarely do, but I admit to a sneaking fondness for Portal -- then I
wouldn't use a Windows VM, I'd use the real thing running natively on
my machine.

I am abroad using a notebook, but I still have a 1TB disk in my
machine along with the SSD that it boots off. Yes, in a notebook.
Space is pretty cheap these days, so I keep both a real physical
install of Windows around as well as a VM. I think my 1TB notebook
drive was well under £100 earlier this year.

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