Virtual Machine

[Gunther]

I've running two native 64 bit operating systems on my new machine: Windows 7 Professional with SP 1 and Gentoo Linux. I've to install the 32 bit operating systems (Windows and Linux) as virtual machines, because those systems are not EFI aware and I have an EFI hard disk.

There are several free virtual machines available: VirtualBox, Virtual PC, VMware Player, Bochs etc. What would be a good solution? Any experiences?

Gunther

[anta40]

I mainly use VirtualBox to run Linux on my Windows system. Works good. Never have problems so far.
I also use Bochs, but mainly for debugging some toy OS projects.

[Gunther]

Hi anta40,

I mainly use VirtualBox to run Linux on my Windows system. Works good. Never have problems so far.
I also use Bochs, but mainly for debugging some toy OS projects.

thank you for the fast answer. Is it a 32 or 64 bit Linux?

Gunther

[anta40]

A 32-bit Debian, which is mainly used for web apps development.

[Gunner]

I use VitualBox, Windows 7 64bit is my host OS, and under VB, I run 4 flavors of *nixs, each in 32 and 64 bit, no problems.

[Gunther]

Rob,

thank you for that information. I'll give VB a try.

Gunther

[sinsi]

For speed, VMware Player seems to be the fastest (on Win7Pro x64 anyway).
VirtualPC is a bit limited as far as guest OS's go.

I use VirtualBox, VirtualPC, VMware Player and bochs (like anta40, bochs is for hobby OS's).