Re: [PLUG] Virtualization for small system?

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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I choose VirtualBox for a similar reason - testing with IE 6 :-(

* VirtualBox is very easy to set up.
* Windows works as well as it ever does

Eric


On 11/23/2010 06:32 AM, Floyd Johnson wrote:
> Dear PLUGgers,
> 
> At times, web development requires testing in Internet Explorer 8, which
> WINE can't seem to run as of version 1.3.7. As such, I am considering
> running Windows in a VM on my lappy. It's a 1 GB, 2x1.6GHz machine
> running Ubuntu 10.10 (small, but Linux makes it mighty).
> 
> Which is the better virtualization gear for such a setup, VirtualBox or
> Xen? Or does something else make more sense?
> 
> 
> 
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