[plug] Virtual PC 2007 vs VMWare

[Richard Meyer]

Never tried Virtual PC, but I do run the free (as in beer) VMWare Server
without any problems under SUSE 10.1 and 10.2. Installation was a breeze
as well.

I haven't needed any support on VMWare.

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 20:30 +0900, Josh Fletcher wrote:
> To all the Pluggers,
> 
> I love playing with Linux, but would much prefer to have it as a
> virtual server instead of dual-boot, as I need Windows for work.
> 
> I have played with Virtual PC 07, and tried Debian 3.1, Fedora Core 6,
> Ubuntu 6.10 and Gentoo 2006.1. All of them have had many problems
> during install, to the extent that I really can't be bothered.
> 
> My question is twofold -
> 
> 1) Has anyone got any hints for getting Linux distros to work with
> Virtual PC 2007? and 
> 2) Should I just switch to VMWare, and is support a lot better for
> Linux with VMWare?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Josh Fletcher
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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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