freesoftwaremagazine.com — GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your hard drive so badly that you need to format it to get rid of GNU/Linux? The solution is to use virtualization technology. A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer...
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euro22Jul 4, 2007
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pixelat3dJul 4, 2007
You mean you can use software to emulate things that are emualteable!? ... seriously, enough of these posts already, none of this stuff is new.
sinuJul 4, 2007
think it runs both on linux and widows but perfom in windows better
swordedgeJul 4, 2007
I know Innotek, the stewards of VirtualBox as an IBM Business Partner and as "the" answer IBM gave customers looking for custom OS/2 apps for the last 8 years of that OS. That is, IBM sent their customers to Innotek when they wanted custom software.They were also stewards of something called "Project Odin," a means of running windows programs on OS/2. The difference between it and wine was that other then how functions get called, the instructions are the same, being the same processor. So Odin actually ran Windows code like it was native excepting that they delt with the differences in function calls. The only things they had to rewrite was stuff that delt with the OS directly or hardware. It worked very well and in fact, the last four java versions they did for OS/2 were Odin results and users couldn't tell the difference.In short, VirtualBox's stewards are very good (you have to be to get that vaunted IBM Business Partner label)
schottyJul 4, 2007
Considering Parallels is a mere $80 at worse case (on a Mac its $80, $50 on Lin/Win), I dont see that as expensive at all.
cdmarcusJul 5, 2007
How much RAM do you have? For anything not using accelerated graphics, with enough RAM, it's usually almost as fast as a non-virtualized system. You just need enough RAM to support both the host OS and the guest OS at the same time.