EvilZone
General Tech => Operating System => : lifecabal January 01, 2013, 04:07:42 PM
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I am kind of new to these virtual pc stuff. There are plenty out there, but which is the best. (btw i want to use it to run some malware and shit.)
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Ive always used virtualbox and I really like it.
It has some good networking and sharing cap.
As far as Ive noticed its a little lighter than virtualmachine.
Plus is opensource which is a big + for me.
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Ive always used virtualbox and I really like it.
It has some good networking and sharing cap.
As far as Ive noticed its a little lighter than virtualmachine.
Plus is opensource which is a big + for me.
Virtualbox is nice, and it being opensource is awesome, but from my experience VMWare products seem a little faster, and they included multi-processor compability earlier (it had a big impact in my choice, a few years back).
On the other hand, VMWare is an expensive piece of software, and it doesn't have that much features that would justify a home user to buy it (Yes, VMWare Player it's free, but many of the Workstation's handy features aren't available).
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I always used VirtualBOX. It's great, it's light, it's fast. Runs my shit smoothly.
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Plus it's free! Can't forget free
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I always used VMware, I should give a shot to Virtualbox, but coming from Oracle it's what makes me lose the trust. I know it hasn't always been from Oracle, but after seeing the Java stuff they have done (like patching and then finding out the patch wasn't really there), it's hard to put confidence on it.
If you have a chance, try ESXi (unlike ESX), it's free last time I checked, it runs on the bare-metal (no underlying OS required), less than 120 mb footprint, it's not based on any OS, hypervisor... blah blah. You can use that if you have a dedicated box and then want to run all your vm's there. It's a nice setup if you want to look into researching under a safe environment (malware reversing, etc.).
We should actively fuzz Virtualbox, not to put Oracle to the public shame again, but to make sure they do their homework. That's just my personal opinion.
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Any chance of running VMs on a pc with 512 Mb ram And 1.6 GHZ cpu ? If yes then witch one should i go for?
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Any chance of running VMs on a pc with 512 Mb ram And 1.6 GHZ cpu ? If yes then witch one should i go for?
Depends on what OS you want to run
I would say with XP and up, no
But if you just wanted to run like Archlinux or something without a GUI, it would be alright