[wellylug] virtualisation options?

[Schalk Engelbrecht]

On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:09 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 15:18 +1300, Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:
> > There is XEN or VirtualBox from Sun.  Both are ok, Virtual Box is
> > getting a whole lot better for end-user UI, XEN is extremely fast due
> > to it only being a hypervisor running on your existing kernel.
> 
> I saw a XP (I think) box running Ubuntu inside a VirtualBox.  What
> really impressed me was the switch to "Flawless" mode, at which point
> there was the XP start bar at the bottom, Ubuntu's app bar at the
> top ... and X and Windows windows seemingly playing happily together ...
> if I wasn't an acolyte of the Church of Emacs, sworn to never run any
> non-free software, I'd probably use that.
> 
> Sam.
> 

I only joined this group now so have not seen the original question, but
here is my 2c worth:

I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed on my Dell inspiron 1720 (4Ghz of RAM), but
currently work on a heavy MS development environment.  This forced me to
investigate some virtualisation options.  I tried most of the available
options but eventually settled on Virtualbox.  I run Virtualbox with a
XP virtual machine fullscreen on one of my desktops - so I can switch
easily between Ubuntu and XP.  XPs runs flawlessly with 1Gb RAM assigned
to it and there is no lag in Ubuntu.

If you have a dual screen monitor setup then this is even more
impressive as you can run Ubuntu on one and Virtualbox on the other and
seamless movement with mouse between the two.

Hope that helps.

Schalk