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    to vb or not to vb?

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by mufasis, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. mufasis

    mufasis Notebook Geek

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    I just got a brand new clevo m570tu and it has a 320gb 7200rpm hd and i cant decide if i should dedicate the whole hard drive to vista x64 and run VB or if i should dual boot vista and arch or another distro? i am new to vb and i have never used it before but i am not new to windows and im semi ok at linux/bsd. what are the pros cons of vb versus a traditional dual boot?
     
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  2. mufasis

    mufasis Notebook Geek

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    anyone have any experience on vb?
     
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    archer7 Notebook Evangelist

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    If your purpose is learning, then you won't learn much device management inside virtualbox. It's all up to you. You'll get less performance, have a stunted experience, and won't learn as much. Decide if that's worth the convenience.
     
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  4. mufasis

    mufasis Notebook Geek

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    how much performance loss is there? and what device management would i be missing out on?
     
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    archer7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Pretty much all of it. It's called a "virtual machine" for a reason. :D

    Not a whole lot. With a machine like yours, you won't even notice it. However, there are performance limitations. 3D won't be very good, but that shouldn't be an issue for you since you're probably gonna run all your 3D apps from Windows. Basically, many little things won't be the same. You'll have to find out what those are.
     
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  6. mufasis

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    so whats the purpose of vb then?
     
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    Convenience. There's also the obvious advantage of being able to run multiple OSes on one set of hardware. You should already be aware of this if you've gone far enough to even consider its usage, making your question kinda moot in hindsight....
     
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  8. Ed. Yang

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    It is suggestible for you to try out the distro in live disc first, to determine whether the hardware in you lapper is compatible or not.
    Test drive by using live disc, allows you to feel the operation comfort of different distros. This is much more better than straight install into another partition, which might in turn hangs/interrupt the installation process when one of the hardware in your laptop is not compatible with that particular distro.
     
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    Ditto on Archer and Yang......the purpose of a virtual machine for me is a compatibility enviro....I run XP and Vista in Virtualbox from within linux to have access to windows programs I wouldn't ordinarily be able to run. The virtual machine uses 'virtual hardware'....you're best to boot up and liveCd to check hardware compat, and then do a dual boot if you want to use linux.
     
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    well wouldnt it be easier to just use vb from inside vista to use linux regardless of what distro i choose?
     
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    anyone else have any experience with vb???
     
    mufasis, Aug 14, 2009
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    What are you waiting for? It shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to give virtualbox a good try. The interface is very easy to use.
     
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  13. ALLurGroceries

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    I use KVM with virt-manager on my main lappy, but I use virtualbox on my netbook because it doesn't support VT-x. It's pretty straightforward, you shouldn't have any problems. Remember to enable VT-x in virtualbox since you have a newer CPU that supports it and it should boost performance (if only marginally for most things).
     
    ALLurGroceries, Aug 14, 2009
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