[wellylug] virtualisation options?

[Daniel Pittman]

Schalk Engelbrecht <schalk.engelbrecht at gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
>
> 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 am curious as to why you chose this, and what you compared it to.
Should I infer that ...

> 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.

... the other tools you tried had XP running poorly with 1GB of RAM, or
that they caused "lag" of some sort in Ubuntu?

Regards,
        Daniel