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Too much virtualization isn't goodToo much virtualization isn't goodPosted Jan 14, 2011 22:43 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: Too much virtualization isn't good by cabrilo Parent article: Lawyers Can Leave Windows for Linux OS Ubuntu (SEOLawFirm.com)
While my setup may not be that good a match, I would make a couple of points...
Running MS Office under Wine might be a good choice, it's apparently noticeably faster than under Windows :-)
I use VirtualBox to run Windows, and the home directories are shared with linux - ie ~/Documents and "My Documents" are the same directory on the host hard disk.
Both Firefox and Thunderbird are configured to have the same local storage in linux and windows, so it doesn't matter which they're fired up under (and I think they can be fired up under both at the same time - that's certainly true of firefox), you see all your mail, bookmarks etc in either.
And I use linux as the host os because I use xdm so both my wife and I can share the same pc at the same time :-)
Cheers,
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Too much virtualization isn't good Posted Jun 2, 2011 14:48 UTC (Thu) by Jan_Zerebecki (guest, #70319) [Link]
"(and I think they can be fired up under both at the same time - that's certainly true of firefox)"
That might corrupt your profile. It should warn you (it normally uses a lock file to detect this situation), because some parts of the profile are modified in a way that is not safe to do in a concurrent way.
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