Background
few weeks ago I received my new laptop is a Dell Vostro 1510, with 4GB of RAM, a 2.0Ghz processor and a 250 GB hard drive I think it was worth , is worth the purchase.
Unlike previous purchases, on this occasion, I decided to buy something not so exaggerated, that covers a bit more than the expectations of the operating system, and ready.
I could have bought a better graphics card or possibly a better processor, but the idea is to buy a new laptop in two years or so and not before I expected about 5 YEAR ; you a new purchase. Problem
But this time the computer is for home, ie not be the sole user of it, so I'm trying to take some precautions, a of them I do not want to have a machine with multiple versions of VisualStudio, multiple versions of apache, php multiple versions, etc.. And after a time and with multiple versions of everything, deleted wrong things, visited blogs with viruses, and much more. I always feel that the speed of computers, is beginning to suffer, regardless of other aspects such as disk usage, etc.. Solution
Taking information on virtualization Ruben Colomo , I thought I could use Virtual PC 2007 and have the same ma machine two operating systems, since in reality much of what remains I do it is windows xp. While
could have installed VPC 2007, I sent a message that the system is not adequate for running VPC 2007, I guess maybe requires a Windows Vista Ultimate (which I decided to price ; not have) or that I totally did not want to start with this type of message in this new laptop.
When I get a DVD from Sun, a month ago, I installed on the old machine VirtualBox, but the truth was a fraud, my old laptop, not to enforce when he wanted to create a virtual machine, I almost ran out of RAM. Install
en esta nueva computadora, VirtualBox que además es opensource, y funciona muy, pero muy bien. Y puedo instalar no solo sistemas operativos de Microsoft, sino que inclusive puedo colocar otros como linux y próximamente MacOS.
¿Por qué hacer esto Windows en Windows?... ya imagino alguno que otro criticando por el asunto, y comentando que mejor linux... mejor una partición, etc.
Bueno, la idea es instalar todo los programas beta que se me ocurra y no tener conflictos, por otra parte es mas fácil realizar un respaldo de una máquina virtual que de toda la laptop, la otra es safety, I hope that the many problems that still have windows xp virus, not suffers in sight, but do not want to be contaminated both at the same time, then I have to suffer a couple of days by different viruses.
But above all, as I mentioned to testing and more testing with different versions of applications from alpha, beta, rc, etc.
The process is very simple, so if you have your disk ready Windows XP installation, or operating system to install. Solo is to create the virtual machine, select the hard disk space you wish to use, set the RAM in this case I'm putting 512 MB for WinXP to be be enough, if I need more, you may be up to 1GB. And finally mount the CD for installation. Windows Vista Home
remain a homemade tool, video, photography and editing images, that is the really important things, while for Windows XP, follow the programming work down and removing components for VS2008SP1 Beta, MVC Preview 4, AppEngine Pre-Alpha, Cake 1.2b, etc ... ;)
Ready!
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