VirtualBox
If you are presently using a desktop virtualization solution from either VMware (VMware Workstation/ Server) or Microsoft (Virtual PC/ Server), you might want to give Sun Microsystem’s VirtualBox a try. You might want to try it even if this is the first time you have heard of “virtualization”.
i’ll try this out later today. vmware is just too heavy for my 512ram. the other nuisance thing about it are it’s startup application – vmware-tray.exe which slows down my machine. if virtualbox is decent on resources and doesn’t fu@k up my startup services then i just might switch.
Of course, you’ll need a decent amount of RAM but I am only running 1 Gig and it works fine though you wouldn’t want to try and run Vista this way.
http://jrswift.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/virtualbox-is-terrific/
vista sucks anyhow. i don’t think i’ll have such a problem even with live cds. vmware has a nice program called vmplayer.exe in the programs folder.
yet_another_hindu_infidel
January 26, 2009 at 4:09 pm
tried it. ate around 20mb of my ram only. but the performance sucks. ubuntu livecd took twice too long to load than vmware. backtrack 2 final isn’t working. it’s no good for me.
yet_another_hindu_infidel
January 26, 2009 at 9:45 pm
“ubuntu livecd took twice too long to load than vmware”
What about the performance after installing it within the vm? I always had problems with vmware-tools when it came to linux. Some modules would simply refuse to compile. Been a while since I have done that though. I have installed both windows xp as well as ubuntu within virtual box. Work perfectly fine. The only problem is this – wine and virtualbox don’t work too well together. If you try to run windows applications within linux, you will notice significant response times. A trouble ticket has been raised for it – 1965 I think.
Aristotle The Geek
January 26, 2009 at 11:37 pm
no, i haven’t installed it. just tried booting in PE. earlier i had edited the backtrack directory structure within the iso and it booted well with vmware but with virtualbox, it stuck in a loop. i burned the iso to a disc seeing that it worked on vmware but i was wrong. the disc didn’t work. maybe it was an issue with the LBA. i would say, virtualbox is good for testing self made ISO’s.
yet_another_hindu_infidel
January 27, 2009 at 11:36 am