On 08/03/2014 10:11 AM, Damo Gets wrote: > G'morning Dick & King Beowulf. > > Couldn't help but notice that you both were talking about utilizing > VirtualBox here. I just wanted to mention my experiences with this > suite. > > I've had to rely on it at several points in the past, during low budget > periods of geeking out. It worked very well for me for awhile; that > is, until I started having some hard crashes for my host, while the VM > was running. > > It wasn't until this had happened a couple of times that I ran into an > unrecoverable situation, but I'd had friends with more IT experience > than myself telling me for some time to migrate away from Virtual Box > due to its fondness for eating disk images. > ...
> So I guess, yeah, I just wanted to mention, tread softly on that > beast. If you're doing anything involved, it might be a lot better to > go with VMWare, or the like. I've never had any problems with VMWare, > ever. > > Just my own experiences in the matter. Best wishes, y'all! > > > -- > > Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the owner of this > corporeal, rotting porksuit, nor its fiat-currency waving handlers. > > -Damo > For just fooling around, VirtualBox is fine. Its easy to set up and use. I don't think Dick was worried about a "production environment" but was just looking for an easy way to install and test new linux distros. Sure, Vbox can be a bit flaky. That's why I use QEMU instead. -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
