Art Alexion on 22 Sep 2010 12:17:40 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Virtual Side Topic

  • From: Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Virtual Side Topic
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:17:34 -0400
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Richard Freeman
<r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
> On 09/22/2010 12:57 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> Ahhh someone likes virtual box eh? ;-)
>

> I don't think that VMWare has any well-supported free (as in anything)
> offerings that can run on a linux host.  I know they have their ESX
> product, but I'm pretty sure that has to run on bare metal, and I really
> only want to run the occasional VM.

I work in a VMware shop.  Paid stuff.  Its great for servers.

I use VirtualBox on the desktop to run test builds, or run Win only
software like TurboTax.  At work, on an Ubuntu host, I like running
VirtualBox in seamless mode to run some windows server admin tools.


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