[nmglug] VirtualBox

[akaluta at zianet.com]

Mars:
Allow me to draw on your experience re:VirtualBox.
I have installed VirtualBox on my dual booted system on the Ubuntu side.
If I were to consider reducing the laptop to single boot. Would you 
recommend using Vista or using Ubuntu as the Host system?
The laptop came loaded with Vista.
With my limited Linux installation experience, I would tend towards Vista as 
the Host system.
Is my perspective overly cautious,What say You Marsden? Tnx, Anthony K 


J. Marsden DeLapp writes: 

> akaluta at zianet.com wrote: 
> 
>> The second topic,will anyone who is planning to be at the Santa Fe meeting 
>> Thursday be willing to meet and guide me through a dual boot vista/debian 
>> install.
> 
> I would not recommend a dual boot setup. It is really bad because you have to reboot to switch between windows and 
> gnu/linux applications. I tried dual boot about 5 years ago and found virtualization is a much better solution. 
> 
> I would suggest installing Virtualbox OSE and running windows in a virtual machine. I just completed installing it on 
> three new machines. It is fairly straight forward. One of the really nice features I found on Virtualbox is you can cut 
> and paste between windows and gnu/linux applications. Let's see you try that on a dual boot system. 
> 
> One criteria for virtualization is you need lots of memory. How much RAM does your system have? You might consider 
> upgrading Vista to Windows XP for better performance, lower hardware requirements and better compatibility with software. 
> 
> 
> Mars 
> 
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