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

[manny]

Hey claude,

Yes there a lot of features that virtual box uses.  I tend to use the same xp images on ubuntu, redhat and even a mac (fusion).  

Vpn will work as long as two things are considered, you can intiate it from your host desktop or you can initiate with in the xp image behind nat addressing.  

Does any one use wink ?

Manny. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:02:48 
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.<sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Subject: [SGVLUG] Virtualbox -- was Re:  Any VMware users out there?


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?
>> >
>> >
>
>