Virtualization

Tanguy Eric eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr
Thu May 10 18:18:01 UTC 2007


Ok what do you think about VirtualBox or VirtualPC which are also free ?

Eric

Le jeudi 10 mai 2007 à 13:49 -0400, Michael Kohne a écrit :
> Look at VMWare. The VMWare server product is free at the moment and
> allows you to setup as many VMs as you want. It allows the VM to have
> access to network resources through a sort of 'virtual NIC' concept
> which has worked well for me - it even lets the VM get it's own IP on
> the network, even going so far as to allow the VM to do DHCP and get
> an address that way. It should work no matter what the underlying
> network truly is. (Note that the VM doesn't actually have control of
> the network card - windows does, and VMWare does stuff underneath to
> make it all look right to the VM).
> 
> VMWare also lets the VM get to the CD or DVD-rom drive, or lets you
> pretend an iso is a real disc.
> 
> I've got older versions of FC and I've got the latest Ubuntu setup
> under the current VMWare and they all work fine. There's no reason to
> suspect that FC7 wouldn't work great.
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/10/07, Tanguy Eric <eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
> > I will have soon a new laptop with winxp. I would like to have fedora7
> > (when it will be out) running as an os on top of winxp. what would you
> > recommend to do that ? Wmware ? Which version ? Other solutions ?
> >
> > When this system will run on top of winxp, is it possible to update, use
> > ethernet and wifi and bluetooth, ... ?
> >
> > Thanks for the help
> >
> > Eric
> >
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