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WBM
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28 May 2016, 2:23 pm

What do you guys think of Virtual box?

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28 May 2016, 2:32 pm

WBM wrote:

What do you guys think of Virtual box?

Its okay if you want to run a quick version of Linux on Windows but there are far more superior virtualization options if your on Linux, qemu and Xen to name a few. Having said that I am playing around with writing my own bootloader and OS with virtual box.

Here is howto for playing around with boot loader, its not as cool as it sounds but its a fun exercise and you can learn from it.

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30 May 2016, 10:45 am

Love VirtualBox. I use it all the time to experiment and play around with different operating systems.

My current list of virtual OSs:
MS-DOS 5.0
DR-DOS 7.03
FreeDOS 1.1
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope
Slackware 14.1

I will soon add Windows 95 to this list.

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31 May 2016, 12:01 pm

WBM wrote:

What do you guys think of Virtual box?

It's ok, it's free and i use it at home to run an XP image with old 16 bit games in it. Prefer VMWare workstation though, but latest version is quite expensive.

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03 Jun 2016, 1:09 pm

It's alright if you'd like to run OSes quickly, but i guess theres alternatives like VmWare, although that one is paid.

Still, love it really good though

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