Virtualization recommendation

[Dotan Shavit]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009, David Suna wrote:
> I just bought a new Gateway laptop that comes with Windows Vista (and a
> free upgrade to Windows 7).  I want to be able to run both Linux (Ubuntu
> is my preferred distribution) and Windows (Vista for now, Windows 7 in
> the future) using virtualization.  I have not gotten into virtualization
> until now so I wanted recommendations about how to go about doing this.
>
> >From what I have read so far I have the following options:
>
> 1. Host on Windows using VMWare (either VMware Player or Workstation)
%s/VMWare/VirtualBox/g

>
> 2. Host on Windows using Microsoft Virtual PC
>
> 3. Host on Linux using VMWare, Xen etc but then I have to deal with
> installing Windows since the laptop comes with it but does not have
> separate installation disks
>
>
> Recommendations for or against any of the above or information about
> other options that I left out would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,