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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Virtually There

The Gorse Fox has been looking at various options for Virtualisation on the home PC. This will allow him to run further “systems” without needing further hardware.

He has VMware Player and Virtual Box and has tried out various options from Bitnami for images or appliances… however they seem to favour Vmware – and GF wants to concentrate on Virtual Box as his hypervisor.

It seems strange looking at hypervisors from these companies given that Starfleet built their first hypervisor for hosting virtual machines back in 1967… and GF used to be the country specialist for the systems in the 1980s and enjoyed several internships with the development labs at the time.

Talking of virtual presence, we managed to get a good Skype session with Cousteau-cub. The weather there is improving, but it is still low season so she has more time on her hands than normal. Bruno, the dog, is smelling sweet after a hot shower and shampoo and the Coventry Hobbit was preparing to talk with his family.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Virtual Box wins it for me every time. Not least because it's free!! I run an XP VM on my Mac purely for the PC based oddities (2 pieces of software). I also use it for exploring the fun stuff too. I have an Android VM, and untold numbers of Linux boxes - even a Win95 somewhere, for the sake of nostalgia.