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[David Hardy]

I second Jerry's tip on turning on virtualization in the BIOS, if possible.
 Do it before setting up Virtual Box or VMware Player.

My Fedora is a vm in Virtual Box under W8 (I had to have W as a backup for
wife's dying laptop running Vista). I can jack up the RAM to 32GB and run a
whole bunch of vm's in it.

Also playing Real Soon Now with how the KVM stuff works in RHEL 6.4.



On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> On 03/22/2013 12:44 PM, David & Tina Ohlemacher wrote:
> > I would recommend:
> > - Install VMWare player (free) or Virtual Box (free/open).
> > - Try distros within virtual machines. You may install directly from
> > an iso, no disks to burn.
> > - Check out distrowatch.com <http://distrowatch.com>
> >
> > Personally: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE w/ XFCE).   It is not
> > Ubuntu based as is regular Mint. It is a rolling distro, which I like.
> >
> Settting up a VM for Linux is pretty simple, and I agree with you here.
> You don't need a large machine for running virtual servers. For
> instance, my Acer Aspire One netbook with an Atom processor and 1GB of
> memory is running Linux Mint14 with VirtualBox as the VMM, and Windows
> XP and Ubuntu 12.10 as the guest OS. Virtual Box and VMWare Player both
> work well under Windows. Just one caveat. If you can turn on
> virtualization support in the BIOS you will get better performance. It
> is off by default on all systems I am aware of. Nearly all desktop
> systems today have virtualization support , but many laptops do notr.
>
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