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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on August 17, 2004, 05:02:19 pm

Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: Sandwich on August 17, 2004, 05:02:19 pm: I'm looking to experiment with multiple OSes, and I'd like to do so under a virtual machine. Virtual PC (now a MS product - ugh) is the only one I can remember the name of. I'm running Windows 2k on an Athlon XP 3000+ with 1Gb of RAM.

Recommendations? Alternatives?
Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: kode on August 17, 2004, 06:15:12 pm: VmWare is good. not too pricey either, I think. $200. depends on what virtual pc costs. vmware works superwell, tho. we ran it at my highschool when learning netware.
Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: Martinus on August 17, 2004, 06:51:33 pm: [color=66ff00]Knoppix? Not quite dual OS but you can boot it simply by allowing the BIOS to boot the CD at boot time. (wow that's a lot of boots).
It doesn't install anything and runs completely off the CD. Gives you a good idea of what a linux/KDE setup looks like and works like.
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Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: Kosh on August 17, 2004, 06:54:16 pm: Multiple partitions.
Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: Sandwich on August 18, 2004, 04:45:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Knoppix? Not quite dual OS but you can boot it simply by allowing the BIOS to boot the CD at boot time. (wow that's a lot of boots).
It doesn't install anything and runs completely off the CD. Gives you a good idea of what a linux/KDE setup looks like and works like.
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Have it already, but that's not what I'm looking for. Thanks. ;)

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Originally posted by Kosh
Multiple partitions.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and got sick of wearing it, thank you very much. :p

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Originally posted by kode
VmWare is good. not too pricey either, I think. $200. depends on what virtual pc costs. vmware works superwell, tho. we ran it at my highschool when learning netware.

Ah! That's what I was trying to think of.... I think. :p
Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: Kamikaze on August 20, 2004, 02:30:05 am: Before you buy VmWare or VirtualPC try Bochs. It's free/open so it'll save you some money if it works. I've heard it's good, but I've only used VmWare myself.

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
Title: Virtual PC or an alternative?
Post by: Setekh on August 20, 2004, 08:23:16 am: I used to use VMWare myself, though WINE can be quite useful if it suits your purposes. VMWare is the one I'd recommend, though.