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Leo Laporte
Thanks to everyone who suggested the free Sun Virtual Box for running Windows on OS X. Works great! http://www.virtualbox.org/
May 3
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Christopher A Carr, Daniel Rowley, Jason and 14 other people liked this
How well does it do with Boot Camp partitions?
- midnightgolfer
Been thinking about using Virtual Box to run Windows on Ubuntu: http://lifehacker.com/367714...
- Jason Heppler
Jason, you should -it works really well
- Robert Johnson
I don't know if it works with Bootcamp partitions (like VMWare and Parallels do) but I'm using it with XP right now and it seems every bit as fast as either Parallels or VMWare.
- Leo Laporte
Is there any way to run Linux like that?
- Kyle
@Kyle. Yes, you can run a Linux distro in a virtual machine.
- Christopher A Carr
If I already have a license to run VMWare Fusion, what does Virtual Box do that VMWare doesn't?
- Paul Grav
@Paul Grav: For instance, you can insert USB devices in a virtual machine! I use it myself to sync the Pocket PC of my sister, works perfect.
- Daan Berg
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@Daan. VMWare does this too.
- Paul Grav
Haven't played around with VMWare lately, so perhaps it has this functionality now, but one thing I liked about Virtual Box was the ability to run Windows guest apps on top of the Linux host desktop, in seamless mode -- would put the Windows taskbar on the side with Gnome bars on the top and/or bottom.
- Christopher A Carr
@Christopher Carr - I second that. Virtual Box is the best free Virtualisation software I tried so far.
- Ravindran Navaneethan