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Creating a new virtual machine is much more time-consuming than in Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion Player, and you’ll need to know details such as the amount of RAM, CPU cores, and hard drive space to allocate to your VM. The VirtualBox interface can be intimidating, as it shows a lot of technical details and specifications without many tips or descriptions for beginners. The interface looks pretty dated and isn’t as streamlined as other virtual machine software, though VirtualBox has made some improvements that give it more polish. VirtualBox supports a great number of guest operating systems going all the way back to Windows 98, and you can even run your own servers. It’s designed with developers and IT professionals in mind, so VirtualBox provides you with a great deal of control over your virtual environments. Great choices all around, Ubuntu is my favorite Linux distro and VMware Fusion has been a cornerstone of my Mac experience for many years and does a great job installing and running just about every flavor of Linux (and Windows too).VirtualBox is a free and open source virtual machine software from Oracle. Even better, you can grab a free ISO disk image of Ubuntu directly from their Web site and once you’ve grabbed the 1.5GB file, it’s rather astonishingly easy to go from download to running Ubuntu installation! The only comment I’ll make about dual boot versus virtual machine is that a dual boot install will be a bit cleaner and faster, if that makes a difference. If you’re testing software that accesses device drivers or hardware, for example, a dual boot is probably going to be better. If you’ve just got some regular user software to test out, or just want to learn more about Linux with the easy Ubuntu world, then a VM is going to be a smarter alternative. One huge benefit: You can run Ubuntu and whatever other VM you prefer simultaneous to also running MacOS X and all of your favorite Mac apps too. To start, you’ll need VMware Fusion, of course. Easiest is to go to /download/desktop or just click on the box below (it’ll grab the latest copy if things have updated in the interim between me writing this and you downloading the OS): Grab an evaluation copy or go ahead and pay for a license at.
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