Quote: Original post by Glass_Knife
Any one else tried this with Virtual PC.
Since I haven't used Virtualbox, does it make a huge file for the whole file system, or does it add to it.
I looked at VMWare, but only the player is free, is that correct. Is it true that you need to buy it to make your own virtual environments? If that's the case, then is the an Ubuntu 8.10 out there for free?
Sorry for all the silly question, but you gotta start somewhere, and when it comes to forums, Gamedev is the best.
Thanks again.
Yeah I tried it with on and off with Ubuntu but it's hit or miss with VirtualPC(will usually get a black screen during install unless you use some command line hacks) so I've switched to VirtualBox which seems to work alot better with Linux distro's and is updated alot more often than virtualpc.
Save yourself some grief and use latest VirtualBox which I know works with Ubuntu since that's what I"m using whenever I have to do something with Ubuntu.
Here someone actually took step-by-step screenshots on how easy it is so you'll see what a nobrainer it is to do and you'll wonder why you never bothered before since it's just like installing any other program.
And if your cpu used hardware virtualization it will run just about as fast as if you took the time to do a proper dualboot. The only things that will be missing will be 3D acceleration and networking is a pain to get right.
