[GRLUG] virtual machine current rec

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

For a fully functional linux server on Win10, this is the quickest and freest way to go:
https://windows101tricks.com/run-ubuntu-on-windows-10/ <https://windows101tricks.com/run-ubuntu-on-windows-10/>

If she needs an X windows environment to work in, she could launch vnc server within.  For a full VM, VMWare player personal free use is good, and VirtualBox is also fairly functional on Windows.  I think Windows has a free personal use native hypervisor on it, but I haven’t run windows desktop on metal in 2 decades.

-Van

> On Apr 30, 2022, at 16:00, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <grlug at grlug.org> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>>> 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?
>>> 
>>> Eric Beversluis
>>> Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com
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