On Thu, Dec 22, 2011, at 01:22 PM, John Ferrell wrote:

> I would appreciate any advice on getting started with a VM. Every time I=
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> start looking I seem to get overwhelmed with confusing choices. I have=20
> both XP Por and Win 7 Pro available in my shop.

Hi John,

I have both Oracle (formerly Sun) Virtualbox and VMWare Player installed
on my computer. Both are free to use. I think VirtualBox might have the
"beginner" edge, but Player has been a little more useful to me,
especially when installing older software and dos-based operating
systems. I couldn't get VirtualBox to do fullscreen video in full
resolution running a Windows 98 machine in my widescreen Win64 laptop.
But Player had no problem with it. And parallel ports are not really
supported in VirtualBox (as far as I could tell, I got a lot of crashes
and use Player when I need a parallel port).

VMWare Player also has market share going for it. And if you get serious
later, VMWare Workstation has a few more options and features. I have a
license for an old Workstation version so I don't use it anymore, but it
was very nice.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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