The new VirtualBox brings seamless virtualization to Linux. This puts Linux on par with the Mac - users can run their native desktop but still launch the odd Windows-only program when they need to. The VirtualBox manual doesn’t give much detail on the new feature, so here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly of VirtualBox 1.5
Bloomberg believe VMware’s IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company’s supposedly proprietary ESX product, which may be derived from Linux.
Amazon’s web services have been around for a while now. The Elastic Compute Cloud provides incredibly cheap Xen based virtualization, and Simple Storage Service provides terabytes of storage for around the cost of a cinema candy (and not the expensive cinema candy either).
They’re popular with a bunch of startups, including 37Signals’ Basecamp, but haven’t been suitable to run a full LAMP stack based server.
Until now.
Here’s a simple guide to using your existing Windows install inside Ubuntu - and still being able to start it from your hard disk if you need. Unlike previous guides, it takes around 15 minutes and doesn’t require any terminal use.
This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM) inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.
Final Update September 2007: Virtualbox 1.5 includes seamless virtualization! Go read about that instead!
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It's created by Mike MacCana, who has worked purely in Open Source for 9 years. A former columnist for PC Authority, APC magazine, and co-author of two Linux Pocketbooks, Mike has also trained RHCE and RHCA courses for Red Hat, and consulted as a Linux specialist for a wide variety of clients.
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