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Started by Gunther, November 12, 2012, 01:07:19 AM

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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
You have to know the facts before you can distort them.

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,

Quote from: anta40 on November 12, 2012, 02:22:41 AM
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
You have to know the facts before you can distort them.

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.
~Rob

Gunther

Rob,

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

Gunther
You have to know the facts before you can distort them.

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).
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