At that time, six to eight years ago, VMware Workstation seemed to be the best choice. My older blog describes my efforts to run Windows XP in a VM on Ubuntu. This account may be useful for people who are troubleshooting specific problems, and also for developers who are interested in user experiences with their software. If I write an update that simplifies this, I will probably come back and post a link to it from here. These notes provide a blow-by-blow account of the steps I took and the mistakes I made.
Some of this exploration took place on a Windows host machine, some on a Linux host, but in any case the goal was to get Linux running as a guest system.
The particular focus is on the choice of VM software - mostly on choosing between VMware, VirtualBox, and KVM to create, modify, and save Linux Mint VMs. This post describes my exploration of and experimentation with Linux guest system VMs. I could just start up another copy of the Linux VM, and resume where I left off. So it was nice to think about eventually running Windows in a VM on Linux, but right now I wanted something different: I wanted to run Linux as a guest system in a VM, on a Windows or Linux host system, and I wanted to make copies of that Linux guest VM so that I wouldn’t have to reinstall Linux every time my tweaking experiments messed something up. For instance, another post describes how I had recently screwed up my Linux installation while trying to get Wine to work. I was still learning how to install and configure Linux Mint.
My plan was to install Linux Mint 17.3, and use that to run Windows 7 in a virtual machine (VM).Īt this point, I was only partly finished with that project. Trying to Install Linux from Scratch in VirtualBoxĪs discussed in another post, Microsoft’s efforts to drive Windows 7 users toward Windows 10 resulted in my decision to return to Linux. Trying to Configure a Prepackaged VM in VirtualBox
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