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    the differences in virtual programs

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by null84, Jun 4, 2007.

  1. null84

    null84 Notebook Evangelist

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    Can someone please educate me differences in parallel workstation, vmware and virtual box? or other virtual programs?

    I am going to use Ubuntu and a virtual program to run vista. Which one do u guys suggest?
     
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Parallels and VMWare and VirtualBox all do essentially the same thing. I would suggest you download the VMWare player and an Ubuntu image from http://www.vmware.com. Free to use, works well. The only thing you won't get is 3D acceleration inside of the virtual machine, whereas I have heard rumblings of the latest version of Parallels allowing that.
     
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