Re: [Sheflug] Ultimate dual booting guide

[Alan Dawson <aland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Steve Fisher <steve.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Came across this:
> 
> http://apcmag.com/node/5162/
>

As a heretical viewpoint .. 

with all the virtualisation options about at the moment why bother with a multi
boot computer at all?  
 
Its much easier to download vmware server ( free as in beer ) or if you have
access to newer hardware that supports the AMD and Intel virtualisation
extensions you can use XEN ( http://www.xensource.com ) or KVM
(http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/KVM ) ( and in the linux kernel now ) to  have a
free as in speech and beer solution to running non free OS.

Running a different OS in a virtual machines is much easier than messing about
with partitioning and grub.  And much more flexible when you want to alter the
OS's that are on your computer or run an application that is only supported on
a particular OS, as no rebooting is required.


The choice now is not what OS platform to run but what hypervisor is the best
for you.


AED
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