[GRLUG] virtual machine current rec

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

From a quick look online, it’s not clear what WSL2 does. It doesn’t look like a VM.

Basically she wants to be able to use both Linux and Windows and installing Linux in a VM seemed to me the best way, preferable to dual boot.

Eric Beversluis
Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com

On April 30, 2022 at 18:04:43, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group (grlug at grlug.org) wrote:
> The immediate question is, what is the use case?
>  
> But in the absence of an answer to that, VirtualBox with Vagrant works.
> Not great, but good enough.
>  
> Is there any reason not to use WSL2?
>  
> Or if doing development, Cloud9 on AWS works well.
>  
> Good luck and let us know how things go.
>  
> Regards,
> - Robert
>  
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:16 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <
> grlug at grlug.org> wrote:
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> > My daughter wants to install a VM app and linux on her windows box. I
> > haven’t kept up. Is VirtualBox still the way to go for Win10 or 11?
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> > Eric Beversluis
> > Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com
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