Interesting read. ArsTechnica has an article/review about Microsoft’s Virtual PC, now available free. Why would you want to set up another PC on your existing PC? Check out new operating systems, experiment, play…who knows.
I run a Ubuntu server for the home, on a stand-alone box. The article talks about installing Ubuntu desktop on a PC…takes about 3 hours, but at the end of the day, you’ve got a computer that will run another OS within the windows environment.
Is it better than creating a dual-boot PC? Likely. This way, you don’t really have to work at the hardware layer — formatting and partitioning your HD to support multiple OS. I’m tempted to try it out.
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You could also try VMware player, which is free.
I actually do the reverse. I run an Ubuntu Linux box and then I run Windows on it inside a QEMU virtual machine.
You know, I’ve got a spare laptop (heh) that I may just try that on. Time permitting, may play with them both. Thanks for the heads up!