08-10-2015, 08:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2015, 08:17 AM by ppppenguin.)
I suppose the first real question is whether to go for the complexities of a bare metal hypervisor. I've looked at the installation notes for Vsphere and there's stuff about setting IP addresses, DNS etc that look pretty irrelevant to the kind of desktop virtualisation I want to do. Also there's licensing to be done, even though it's free.
On this basis, Vbox seems more than adequate. It's released under GPL and getting started is very simple. I've also played with it a little and it seems like it will do the job for me. So is there any reason not to use it? Host OS will be W7 64 bit, guests will be, at least initially, XP and possibly W98.
If I wanted one or more W7 guests under the W7 host I presume that the licence for my host OS won't work for the guests. How do you solve that problem? Apart from illegally.
On this basis, Vbox seems more than adequate. It's released under GPL and getting started is very simple. I've also played with it a little and it seems like it will do the job for me. So is there any reason not to use it? Host OS will be W7 64 bit, guests will be, at least initially, XP and possibly W98.
If I wanted one or more W7 guests under the W7 host I presume that the licence for my host OS won't work for the guests. How do you solve that problem? Apart from illegally.
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