I was playing with Sun’s VirtualBox for a couple of weeks now; I was able to install Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 8.04. My main OS is Vista. Used 1GB for each vdi to use.
XP seems to work perfectly just fine; the only thing I am having some trouble with is the USB devices. Sometimes I got it working sometimes I don’t. I was able to access folders from my main OS by adding a shared folder and then mounted it just like a network drive on the XP machine. I was able to use sound as well.
I’m still trying it out with Ubuntu. Play with it a little bit more I guess and see what works and what doesn’t.
One thing I like too is I was able to just copy the XP vdi file from the desktop to my laptop and works perfectly fine. Just a little tweak there for the shared folders and sound and it works, no installation or re-installation of drivers whatsoever. One difference though is I have to lower the memory that it will be using since I only have 2GB on my laptop compared to 3GB on the desktop, and refresh rate is a little bit sluggish, it could be because the desktop has its own video card and laptop does not.
It’s great if you wanna try out an OS or a new version of an OS and you don’t have an extra hard drive.
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