[nmglug] VirtualBox

[Eric Krieger]

Well let me say this.  Before doing anything I would image your current
system as it is. With something like..

DriveImage XML

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm


Or Reflect

http://www.macrium.com/ReflectFree.asp


Or from linux...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=581680

That way you can always go back to the way you currently have things
setup.  


That said as much as I would love to tell you go all Ubuntu but I'm
going to say go with whatever you feel that you will be the most
productive using. If you are willing to take the time to fully adjust to
linux without a doubt go all Ubuntu. There are things that I've run into
that you may have issues with running Windows in a VM, USB.  If you need
to sync something like a iPhone 90% of the time things will work but try
to do a full system restart to it and good luck!  You'll need a MAC of
Windows to get it to complete. That said I can honestly tell you that I
can recommend using Ubuntu as the sole host OS.  I've been using Ubuntu
as my sole OS for my home workstation and my work laptop for two years
and I've had very little issues, VPNC aside. 

I'm a big VMWare person as I have rather large ESX environment at work
and I use VMWare workstation on my laptop. I rarely go my XP f VM for
anything as of right now.

How this helps...

Eric



Fyi... I wrote the "HOWTO: Create, Recover and Automate System Images"
so if you have any questions feel free to ask...or point out any
type-o's.  

=)






On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 14:03 -0600, akaluta at zianet.com wrote:
> 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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