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Originally Posted by
hicksd8
For VM software take a look at VirtualBox. It's free and comes from an extremely reputable source (Oracle). It's easy to install, learn and use.
Last I remember Oracle's VirtualBox was pretty good, definitely simple, but I think it may have had limitations. I forget. I'll try it again, but am going to go with QEMU for the moment and see how that goes.
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For a Linux with GUI distro for users already trained on MS Windows take a look at Zorin. The project team built this to emulate Windows and, hopefully, avoid those users having to retrain.
Interesting, I've never heard of Zorin. I'm a big fan of the more traditional unix environments, and building things up from minimal base installs, which is what I like about Slackware (as far as Linux options go). My favorite overall is probably OpenBSD, getting into personal preferences and all, but it also has limitations, despite the great benefits it provides. I really like Solaris (well, Oracle Solaris), zones and ZFS are favorites. A dream machine would be OpenBSD-like in stability/security, yet with ZFS, but also the versatility of Linux. Anyway, I digress... getting back on topic....
I might install a Zorin VM, see what I think of it, although I'd like to get away from the MS Windows-style *nix. I like to avoid desktop environments and just stick with window managers, big fan of fluxbox. I'm going with a Microsoft-esque Linux this time around, but might strip the GUI stuff down to only essentials.
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bakunin
This is a good choice, IMHO, as long as you use mainly one VM, like Sean_ said he plans to do.
That is, I plan on running *nix primary with Windows (probably 10) as a VM, although I will also run additional VMs but only as test setups. I'll probably shut down the Windows VM to open those up. I'm running on a pretty typical CPU, not fancy, and with 8GB RAM. A small primary hard drive, only 80GB, but a 1TB secondary hard drive.
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I used it some years ago and especially liked two features: the ability to route USB ports to the virtual machine (this way you can use USB-based keycards, "identity sticks" and the like in the guest system) and the ability to create an image from an existing installation.
Interesting, I wonder if QEMU can do that.
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I imaged the normal Windows-installation and used the image to boot the VM after installing (Fedora-)-Linux. This way i avoided troubles with the user-helpdesk because they didn't recognize that they were looking at a virtual (instead of physical) machine.
What was the advantage to them not recognizing that they were virtual?
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I think KVM/Quemu or OpenVZ is better suited for managing many concurrent VMs but this seems not to be Sean_'s intended use.
I've never heard of OpenVZ, thanks for bringing that one up! I might check it out.
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Our experience with VMWare and VirtualBox has been that we can easily run many OSs concurrently.
With the the example you provided, what kind of hardware was running on the machine(s) hosting all of those VMs?
Thanks everybody for the input!