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Tip: Virtualbox on 64-bit Ubuntu works like a charm |
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 |
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Innotek's GPL-licensed Virtualbox
software lets you create a virtual operating environment inside your
PC's real operating system. I've been using Virtualbox for several
months now on a 32-bit laptop running Ubuntu 7.04, and I've been
impressed with the software. However, my main PC at home utilizes a
64-bit version of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, and Virtualbox didn't
support 64-bit OSes -- until this month. Now that I've tried it, I'm
happy to report it works just as well as its 32-bit sibling.
I like to use virtualization to set up testing environment to run a
live CD Linux distribution without powering off my primary OS. This
makes things such as taking screenshots of the OS easier. In addition,
I've been eager to try out several new releases of popular Linux
distributions, such as Mandriva and Fedora. Read more at Linux.com
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