Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
An anonymous reader writes "I am getting ready to start learning the use of virtual machines. What VM software would you recommend? This is for personal use. It would be good to run both Windows VMs and Linux VMs. Early use would be maintaining multiple Windows installs using only one desktop computer with plenty of cores and memory. I would be starting with a Windows host, but probably later switching to a Linux host after I learn more about it. Free is good, but reliability and ease of use are better. What is your preferred choice for a VM beginner? VMware? Xen? VirtualBox? Something else?"
It may also be helpful if you can recommend particular VM software for particular uses, or provide some insight on different hosting options.
Really. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What the fuck (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently the attention span of the average geek has dropped below 130 to approx 95. Instead of showing us a machine running VMWare inside Xen inside Virtualbox on Linux inside HTML5 Linux emulator.... we are now succumbed to trivial what-if scenarios. What type of dog food should I feed my dog? blah blah blah ... Feed you dog cat flavoured dogfood, c'mon think!
NOT VirtualBox (Score:5, Funny)
This negative comment was necessary to counterbalance the huge number of positive comments that are recommending VirtualBox. It's a yin-yang thing.
As always, Betteridge has the answer. (Score:5, Funny)
Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner?
No.
Re:What the fuck (Score:5, Funny)
Can someone read this guy's post to me, or at the very least, summarize it? It's too long!
Re:Really. (Score:5, Funny)
"Software preference" clearly falls under "politics/religion"!
Only Emacs.
Preferring Vim is 100% rational.
(Ducks...)
Re:VMware is very easy (Score:4, Funny)
Gentoo? We want him to learn, not commit suicide!