I’ve been using Linux on my laptop computer without any problems. But since I’m working in a Windows environment sometimes I have no other choice to use a Windows system. Instead of using another computer, I decide to use a Virtual Machine on my laptop and install Windows XP. I had many choice to do virtualization, but I choose Virtualbox. Virtualbox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product that is freely available as Open Source Software under the GPL.

Virtualbox can run under Linux, Windows, Macintosh and OpenSolaris. It supports a large number of guest operating systems.

Another cool thing about Virtualbox is the “Seamless mode” which allow you can have the windows that are displayed within a virtual machine appear side by side next to the windows of your host.

This mean that I can run for example Microsoft Outlook on my Ubuntu box.

http://www.virtualbox.org

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