I've had great luck with Sun VirtualBox under Linux. Runs XP and W2K

flawlessly. It's free too :)

Thanks,

Dave

David Smith

Systems Administrator

Doan Family of Dealerships

(585) 352-6600 ext.1730

dsmith@doandelivers.com

www.upstatedigitools.com

-----Original Message-----

From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On

Behalf Of Gil Hale

Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:16 AM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

I have been using Parallels with several Mac OS X platforms, and have

decided to give VMWare a try. I believe Ed migrated to VMWare Mac from

Parallels, not certain right now, but seems to me he did. I tested VMWare

for Linux and had excellent results, First Time Go and no strange setup or

conf issues. It just worked, no fuss, no muss. VirtualBox from Sun works

well under Linux also, and is free, but I did have a few setup and config

issues to deal with. Once done it was fine. I have used M$ Virtual PC

under Windows, and for other M$ OS platforms it works well. It used to work

with Linspire Linux as a guest OS until a Service Pack, and later a newer

release, took care of that little "destabilizing" problem for M$. But for a

free solution where I need to test my apps under different flavors of

Windows it has worked out great.

But, to your point, I do not know if there is anything better than VMWare

unto itself. I do know that whenever I have tested VMWare out I have been

pleased. But in my world if I can get an adequate VM solution for free (M$

Virtual PC and Sun VirtualBox), I will use it. But if I were to have to

plunk down a few bucks and bet on the best bang for the bucks, I would be

inclined to use VMWare. For Mac Host OS I have found a few too many goofy

issues with Parallels, and seen a lot of End User rating where folks rave

about VMWare after having used Parallels first.

My 5 cents...

Gil

> -----Original Message-----

> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com

> [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Nick Causton

> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:38 AM

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Subject: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

>

>

> Hi All,

>

> I am about to setup a machine with VMWare GSX for testing. This

> apparently allows booting into multiple operations systems

> simultaneously, without having to rely on any particular one as the

> host OS.

>

> Just wondering if anyone else has any experience of Machine

> Virtualization software and whether there are any other better packages

out there.

>

> Nick

>

>

>

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