Laptop OS Virtualization?

[hewitt_tech]

I'm running VmWare and have always been happy with it. Over time the 
workstation version has gotten progressively more powerful. For example I'm 
currently running VmWare on a Windows X64 (64bit) host laptop. The guest OS 
is a 64 bit Ubuntu system. With VmWare I can forget about the problems I ran 
into with ACPI and the unsupported Broadcom wireless chipset in the laptop. 
When I put Ubuntu into full screen mode I defy most users from being able to 
tell that Ubuntu is the guest and X64 the host. Of course the system has 
reasonable horse power - 1 Gig of RAM, ML30 (64 bit) CPU running at 1.6 ghz 
and a 100 GB hard drive. Plenty of room to install several guest OSs and 
enough RAM to run a couple of guest OSs concurrently. VmWare allows the 
guest OS to access the network in several modes (NAT, bridged etc.) and you 
can access USB devices, the CD drive and audio.

-Alex

P.S. I'm running VmWare 5.51

P.P.S. The license for VmWare workstation is currently ~$200 which is more 
than some of the alternatives but less than it was a couple of years back.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Roche" <tedroche at tedroche.com>
To: "GNHLUG User Group" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:39 PM
Subject: Laptop OS Virtualization?


> Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal 
> machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client  work) 
> and Linux (more client work, home & hobby), and I'd like to be  able to 
> toggle between the two rather than a slow reboot.
>
> Anyone doing this? What VM manager are you using? What host OS? Tips? 
> Reviews? Pans? Warnings?
>
> Ted "You've got answers? I've got questions!" Roche
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