On Linux and virtual Machines. I am getting pretty sick and tired of having to reboot my computer every time I want to run a windows program (i.e. StarCraft) and although I know that it can be done via WINE, I figure it is about time I learn to use VMs. What...

of virtual networking setup (may not be important to you, but can really do some neat things like make your regular machine AND virtual machine both appear as two separate machines on a LAN, can make a completely VMWare-contained network topology, etc, etc.)...

not open source. Other options include dual booting by either installing windoze and linux on the same drive or using one drive for each OS. If you have more than one PC you could use one for windoze and one for linux. Virtual Machines such as QEMU,...

so what are their specs? Are you aware of the fact you can dual boot Linux and virtually any other OS or that you can run Linux inside a virtual machine like VMWare ( free ) or QEMU ( free and open source ) under Windows or other operating systems? ...

you could go and get a free copy of VMware and install it under windows and then make a bunch of linux virtual machines to see which one you like best. The whole idea behind linux and open source is freedom and choice, so if you don't like one version, by...

Note that VMware's VMplayer software is free as are a lot of premade virtual machines using assorted Linux and BSD distros. If you search Google you'll find a number of sites with instructions on how to create a Windows virtual machine using VMplayer, obviously...

you can run VMWare on windows and then virtual windows / Linux machines from there. As I know you are more of a Windows person and also focussed on the MS dev tools and graphics a Windows VM running on Linux would probably not be a good fit. As said previously...

a year at one place I worked. I used W2K as the "host" OS, and ran additional copies of W2K, XP, NT, WinMe, Win9x, and Linux in virtual machines. Price has come down a lot too. Used to be $300 for the workstation version, but is currently $189. Archived...

Regular Microsoft business apps like office, etc. - Pinnacle Studio for video editing - VMWare, so I can open my Linux virtual machines. I typically don't run more then one machine at the time, but when I do they are not doing much. - TV Tuner card to record...

a VMWare install as well. I dual booted Mandrake and XP Pro, and then had XP Pro on a VMWare virtual machine inside of linux. I prefer to have windows apps running inside of linux just because the virtual desktop option that X gives you makes it much simpler...