Virtualization recommendation

[ronys]

Hi,

If you're going to run no more than one or two VMs simultaneously, the 4GB
should be fine.

Rony

-----Original Message-----
From: David Suna [mailto:david at davidsconsultants.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:27 PM
To: ronys at acm.org
Cc: 'linux-il'
Subject: Re: RE: Virtualization recommendation

4GB should be enough.  Right?

David Suna
david at davidsconsultants.com



ronys wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here's another vote for VirtualBox. Using it in both Windows host / Linux
> guest, Linux(64bit) / Linux(32bit) and Linux / Windows. Integration with
> host is excellent. Support is also quick & responsive.
>
> You might want to make sure your laptop has a healthy amount of RAM,
> regardless of the virtualization solution you choose.
>
> Rony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-il-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il
[mailto:linux-il-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il]
> On Behalf Of David Suna
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:53 AM
> To: linux-il
> Subject: Virtualization recommendation
>
> 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)
>
> 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,
>
>