1.7 VM tips
Christopher Faylor
cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu May 8 20:36:00 GMT 2008
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:03:56PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> I'd need an idea how to best setup a VM for cygwin-1.7 testing.
> I thought of:
> Get a vmware license,
> use my xp home sp2 installation cd
> and do a blank windows install.
>
> Aren't there cheaper and equally easy options? I only have coLinux, and I'm
> pretty happy with it because its actually faster than Windows.
> But a vmware xp inside xp seems pretty slow and expensive to me.
>
> Now I read that VMware Server is free. So it looks pretty good.
> But are there better options?
> MS VirtualPC, Bochs, Xen, QEMU, or such?
>
> VMX-Builder also sounds nice.
I've been meaning to try out http://virtualbox.org/ . It seems to be free even though
Sun bought the company.
cgf
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