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« on: July 05, 2009, 12:49:31 PM »

well i have alot of free time on my hands and im curious about virtual machines. ive done a little bit of reading on them and it sounds kinda neat...yes, i just said neat...so im curious and would like to mess around with some virtualization. can anyone recommend a VM program thats not too complicated for a guy like myself with no experience in machine virtualization? i have no specific reason for wanting to play around with this stuff, im just curious and wanna check em out, see what its all about, i like to play with different types of software now and then. i just recently discovered Daemon Tools, and i really like the idea of virtual drives, so now i wanna check out a virtual machine.


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Re: virtual machines

« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2009, 12:56:10 PM »

There relatively simple to operate, try MS VM


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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2009, 01:03:31 PM »

cool thanks mudman, ill check that out. that ought to give me something to do for a lil while today.


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« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2009, 02:40:43 PM »

ok i got some noob like questions before i get too deep into this VM stuff. a virtual machine is only as good as the physical machine right? and when using the virtual machine, does it take up space on my real hard drive when i save files in the virtual machine? or is it a virtual hard disk? and is it possible to transfer files from virtual machine to physical machine or vise versa? sorry if i seem like a noob, but like i said, i have no experience in VM, but wm trying it out, and i dont want to get too far ahead of myself.


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« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2009, 07:40:12 PM »

you make the size of your vitrual hard disk, and you can allocate how much ram and stuff it uses. i have windows 7 on a VM using microsoft's VM program right now.


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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 08:07:50 PM »

maybe you can add

1. vmware @ http://www.vmware.com/ ==> free trial

2. sandboxie @ http://www.sandboxie.com/ => one (1) time registration fee

or better yet, the free

3. virtualbox @ http://www.virtualbox.org/ ==> completely free

hope this helps.

thank you.


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