Re: [Sheflug] Ultimate dual booting guide

[Lesley Anne Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alan Dawson <aland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> Quoting Steve Fisher :&amp;lang=en">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.
> 

My impression of the VMservers are you get an install someone else thinks you require.  Free beer is fine but all alcohol is high in sugar. ;)  

In this instance they may be worth a look-see.  I had in truth forgotten about VMWare.  Unfortunately it has to be a M$ based solution.

Regards

Lesley





 






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