Re: [Hampshire] A different virtulisation question

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Author: Ottavio Caruso
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] A different virtulisation question

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:41:46 -0500 (EST), "Andy Random"
<andy.random@???> said:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have another slightly different question to Rob's on virtulisation.
>
> Any recommendations for virtulisation software to run on Windows XP and
> let me run a Linux virtual desktop?
>
> Probably something Red Hat-ish (Centos/WhiteBox/Fedora) though Ubuntu
> might be also be of interest.
>
> I know this is like building your house on quicksand, but I'm not allowed
> to run a Linux desktop at work (though we have an increasing number of
> Linux servers in the department) but do have a fairly reasonable
> (3GHz/2GB) XP desktop machine and it would sometimes be useful to have
> access to a Linux desktop virtually.
>
> I've dabbled with Damn Small Linux and QEMU before, but probably need
> something more main stream than DSL to be of real value and haven't tried
> any of the other virtulisation options under XP.


You can out qemu+kqemu on your mem stick, the copy the Linux image on
your work pc and run the images from there.

I don't think anybody will notice that.

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