What's the best VM to run Linux on a Windows host?

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>>57729817
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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>>57729817
INSTALL GENTOO

VirtualBox is fine

>>57729817
Yes.

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it's okay

>>57729817

I've run Linux and Windows in VirtualBox VMs for the last couple of years so I can work for multiple clients without the need for multiple physical machines. Shit works.

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>>57729976
What about VMware?

>>57729817
I use VirtualBox, and I haven't had any problems with it.

I find vmware player to be better.

>>57729987
it's good, but i have no reason to pirate

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>>57729817
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VMware Player is free and has VMware Tools for client systems which let you do cool shit like pseudo GPU passthrough where you get a good chunk of your GPUs performance without actually passing it through to the VM.

>>57729817

VMware Workstation.

Draw a picture of a Windows PC and sticking it to your wall, and you will have a better virtualisation solution than VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is for cucks. The performance is disgusting.

>>57730421
how do you do this?

>>57729817
VirtualBox has significant sound latency in my experience; VMware doesn't