[SGVLUG] Virtualbox -- was Re: Any VMware users out there?

[Claude Felizardo]

Hey, would you or anyone else be willing to give a demo of using
virtualbox at a future meeting?

I'm finding I can't get away from the corporate world so I'd like to
find a way to run MS office apps on my Linux box here at work.  It
came with winXP and office installed but I dual boot Linux by default
and don't want to have to reboot just to edit some word docs every
once in a while.

Oh, does VPN work under winXP running in a virtualbox?  That would be
sweet as I hate running VPN and loosing access to stuff like network
printers, file shares, local webservers, etc.


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Consult Links <consultlinks at gmail.com> wrote:
> VMware has its place in large server prod/dev environments.  as Rae
> mentioned you can use WINE, it works for me generally.  The other
> alternative is virtualbox, I use it at home and it actually interfaces a bit
> better than VMserver.
>
> there is even an option to grant full screen should you need it.
>
> Manny
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Rae Yip <rae.yip at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, NWN has a Linux port for the client and server:
>>
>> http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html
>> http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/standaloneserver.html
>>
>> As for general VMware/virtualisation experience, you want a pretty
>> hefty server to do the job well. Processes that are
>> throughput-oriented should do fine, whereas latency-sensitive stuff
>> will suffer.
>>
>> You might be better off setting up WINE if it supports what you want to
>> run.
>>
>> -Rae.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Zack, James <JZack at unex.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> > I use VMWare quite a bit, but not for applications as you list.  For
>> > basic server computing type things it works great, but I have never
>> > tried anything so intensive.  I did try to watch a video one time and it
>> > wasa little choppy.
>> >
>> > NWN can be run on Linux natively if I recall correctly.  I never managed
>> > to figure it out, but then I had a windows box.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On
>> > Behalf Of Emerson, Tom (*IC)
>> > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:59 AM
>> > To: 'SGVLUG Discussion List.'
>> > Subject: [SGVLUG] Any VMware users out there?
>> >
>> > I'm curious about how well (in terms of responsiveness) the "guest"
>> > system(s) run under a Linux-hosted VMware system -- in particular,
>> > windows XP.  I won't be playing high-end point-n-shoot/run-n-gun games
>> > (doom/unreal/etc.) as a guest -- I'm already fairly certain those will
>> > have to be booted directly  (oh, the everlasting search for
>> > game-frame-rates well in excess of the physical capabilities of the
>> > monitor...)  But I might want to run a less-intensive game such as
>> > neverwinter nights [at least, I don't think they ported a Linux client
>> > for this...]
>> >
>> > How is it for other, possibly intensive, applications such as video
>> > editing (with Premiere)?  (ultimately I'd like to do the video editing
>> > within Linux itself, but I haven't found an NLE I like or understand
>> > yet)  [read "works with my setup and can do HD..."]
>> >
>> > I suspect that non-intensive apps, such as visual studio, will be just
>> > fine -- if anyone has direct experience, I'd like to hear about it [and
>> > again, ultimately I'd like to use a native IDE, and on that front things
>> > have improved - now if only they can finish a decent IDE for monobasic]
>> >
>> > I'll be building a new system that I expect will provide far more
>> > horsepower than I'll need :)  [but not as much as I'd /want/ ;) ] so
>> > running VM's should not be a big deal.  What might be questionable would
>> > be access to hardware (specifically, for burning data, particularly
>> > video, to DVD or perhaps even blu-ray) -- are there any gotcha's here?
>> >
>> >
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