[nmglug] running legacy OS

[Nick Frost]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Andres Paglayan wrote:

> because of a silly reason I will need to run an instance of a legacy  
> OS (Windows) under my Ubuntu laptop every now and then for few days.  
> More precisely Windows XP,
>
> Today there's more virtual hosts options than before,
>
> I wonder if there's any more/less recommended virtualization tool  
> for Ubuntu,
>
> Any good or bad experiences?

I've generally used VMWare Workstation 5 or version 6 for Linux, with  
good results. I've had performance issues with a Dell D820, but I  
think that has more to do with the D820 than VMWare.  Occasionally  
I've had GTK issues with VMWare running on Linux, but always managed  
to resolve them..and once running VMware Workstation functions/ 
performs well.

VMWare Fusion for OS X (Macintosh) performs the best of hypervisor's  
I've used.....a really good experience overall (running 32-bit Windows  
guests, 32-bit and 64-bit Linux guests).

VirtualBox is purported to work well.  I tried it long ago and had  
some issues so I went back to VMWare Workstation, but VirtualBox has  
evolved a lot since then...and I hear good things.  VirtualBox has the  
advantage of running on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I'm currently using VMware Workstation 6.x under Ubuntu 8.10 at $work  
(wish I was using VMware Fusion on a Mac all the time, but $work  
doesn't support Macs).

-Nick
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