Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Best of many worlds

Windows Vista runs inside a virtual machine in Ubuntu Linux.

VirtualBox enables you to create virtual machines inside your host PC running any of the following “guest” operating systems: Windows Vista, XP, Server 2003, 2000, NT 4.0, 98, 95, ME and 3.1; Linux; FreeBSD; Open BSD; NetBSD; Solaris; and even OS2 Warp. This means you can have Windows XP running in its own window on your Linux PC or Intel-based Mac. Or, if you’re a Windows user, you could have your choice of Linux flavor running in a window. The guest operating system works like the real thing—you can install and run Windows programs on a virtual machine in the same way you would on a PC with Windows XP installed. 

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