Virtual Machines

[FN-GM]

Hi, I have Windows and SUSE Linux installed on my desktop at home, does anyone recommend a virtual machine were I can control Windows inside Linux than isn’t VMware.

Thanks

[Jackd]

innotek VirtualBox

[CyberNerd]

Xen (needs a Vanderpool or Pacifica CPU for windows)
Xen's been included with SuSE for years.
http://en.opensuse.org/Category:Xen

[FN-GM]

@CyberNerd I have had a look in the place it specified, the is no XEN icon there. Sorry i am new to Linux really and trying to learn more about it.

[dhicks]

> Sorry i am new to Linux really and trying to learn more about it.

I found VirtualBox easier to set up. It has the advantage that it runs under both Linux and Windows. If you just want to have a Linux box to tinker with, you might do just as well to run VirtualBox on Windows and set up a bunch of Linux VMs. I run VirtualBox under Ubuntu Linux at home for development servers, and plan to be able to switch VMs between my Linux and Windows machines when I've upgraded my Windows machine a bit.

I used Xen at work because it was available under the GPL if compiled from source, hence we didn't have to pay for it.

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David Hicks