sinister666 Posted July 5, 2009 CID Share Posted July 5, 2009 well i have alot of free time on my hands and im curious about virtual machines. ive done a little bit of reading on them and it sounds kinda neat...yes, i just said neat...so im curious and would like to mess around with some virtualization. can anyone recommend a VM program thats not too complicated for a guy like myself with no experience in machine virtualization? i have no specific reason for wanting to play around with this stuff, im just curious and wanna check em out, see what its all about, i like to play with different types of software now and then. i just recently discovered Daemon Tools, and i really like the idea of virtual drives, so now i wanna check out a virtual machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted July 5, 2009 CID Share Posted July 5, 2009 There relatively simple to operate, try MS VM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinister666 Posted July 5, 2009 Author CID Share Posted July 5, 2009 cool thanks mudman, ill check that out. that ought to give me something to do for a lil while today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinister666 Posted July 5, 2009 Author CID Share Posted July 5, 2009 ok i got some noob like questions before i get too deep into this VM stuff. a virtual machine is only as good as the physical machine right? and when using the virtual machine, does it take up space on my real hard drive when i save files in the virtual machine? or is it a virtual hard disk? and is it possible to transfer files from virtual machine to physical machine or vise versa? sorry if i seem like a noob, but like i said, i have no experience in VM, but wm trying it out, and i dont want to get too far ahead of myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted July 6, 2009 CID Share Posted July 6, 2009 you make the size of your vitrual hard disk, and you can allocate how much ram and stuff it uses. i have windows 7 on a VM using microsoft's VM program right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icenter.tupt Posted July 16, 2009 CID Share Posted July 16, 2009 maybe you can add 1. vmware @ http://www.vmware.com/ ==> free trial 2. sandboxie @ http://www.sandboxie.com/ => one (1) time registration fee or better yet, the free 3. virtualbox @ http://www.virtualbox.org/ ==> completely free hope this helps. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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