Comments on: Ulteo Virtual Desktop: run a virtual Linux environment inside Windows

By: Dimension-X

Dimension-X — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:29:49 +0000

I have VirtualBox. I’ll try this one too. Thanks.
A virtual OS will give you almost bulletproof security from malware, worms and viruses when browsing the net as they can’t get into your ‘real’ host machine.
Another possible use is as a testing environment.

By: MobaLiveCD: launch Linux LiveCDs from within Windows - review & download link | freewaregenius.com

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:16:59 +0000

[...] The verdict: an excellent way to test Linux LiveCD builds on-the-fly in a Windows environment without re-booting and without burning ISOs into CDs. There is also the definite coolness factor of running Linux inside Windows (if this is where your interest lies, also check out Ulteo Virtual Desktop). [...]

By: Samer

Samer — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:30:13 +0000

@Mothman,
WUBI and Ulteo Virtual Desktop offer two different things.

UVD offers a working Linux envirnoment INSIDE Windows. You can run both Linux and Windows simultaneously.

WUBI installs Lunix inside a Windows hard drive partition, but you will have to boot into it (installs a dual boot prompt).

By: Mothman

Mothman — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:28:56 +0000

@Orin
How does this stack up against previously posted WUBI? Better or worse.

I’d say Wubi FTW. Pretty easy to set up, and won’t have performance issues as opposed to virtualization.

By: Samer

Samer — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:49 +0000

@sayno2politics

Yes I can post a political banner. It is NOT an ad; I am posting it for free.

Oh and by the way, I am not selling anything for you to be interested in, you must have been seriously interested in someone else’s product.

This is a free service. You are free to take advantage of it, or not. If you don’t come here again it’s no skin off my back.

Apparently you don’t just say no to politics, but to free speech as well.

By: sayno2politics

sayno2politics — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:30:48 +0000

Hey genius,

Post a political ad and lose customers.

I was seriously interested in your product, but not in your agenda. No, no you can’t.

By: pSz

pSz — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:29:32 +0000

” # I tried, in fact, to install a program using dpkg -i as mentioned above but was not successful; I got a message that I did not have “superuser privileges”. ”

@Samer: are you sure, you tried to run dpkg in with root privileges (sudo)?

By: tux_Nub

tux_Nub — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:18:53 +0000

IMHO vmware much faster than virtualbox
example of using linux in windows (i’m used) is for webserver/web application testing stuff [apache+php+mysql] that generally run on linux….

the only linux that i love is slax
http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php
good for recovery rescue cd. ;^^

By: orLinux

orLinux — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:41:15 +0000

andLinux
http://www.andlinux.org/
Provides similar setup using Ubuntu and coLinux.
This provides huge amount of easy to install applications using Synaptic Package Manager.

By: Hiram Q. Pustule

Hiram Q. Pustule — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:53:20 +0000

@darkkosmos: Geek cred.

By: Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:34:25 +0000

Why would you not be able to use the sudo command to run dpkg? Did you try?

By: darkkosmos

darkkosmos — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:56:26 +0000

Problem is that.. WHY would I want to use linux in the first place?!!??!

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:35:57 +0000

>Linux guest is a nightmare to configure for shared folders & USB

Not messed with USB but I configured folders pretty fast (Ubuntu guest) after carefully reading VirtualBox manual (and I am total noob in linux). Well it did make me remember hardcore DOS command line skills…

Anyway in last VirtualBox version network-related stuff got great boost so it’s easier to simply make ftp server on host.

By: Z. Igorinsky

Z. Igorinsky — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:09:53 +0000

For me, the most painless approach for adding Linux to a windows box is Wubi, that adds a dual boot ubuntu using NTFS (so you don’t have to mess with repartitioning your drive). It recognized my existing Vista-XP dual boot and installed nicely without screwing anything up.

By: Reader Orin

Reader Orin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:49:04 +0000

Hey Samer,

How does this stack up against previously posted WUBI? Better or worse.

By: Z. Igorinsky

Z. Igorinsky — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:43:02 +0000

VMWare is WAY too slow but it *does* work. Sun’s VirtualBox performance is great, but the Linux guest is a nightmare to configure for shared folders & USB (and the OSE VirtualBox doesn’t even attempt USB support). Linux is difficult enough to work with (what with having to drop into the terminal mode & issue a bunch of gibberish commands to do much of anything) without adding the virtualized problems.

This, on the other hand, is a fairly clean solution.

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:12:05 +0000

VirtualBox with guest additions, which makes switching between host and guest system easier, seems pretty good to me.

I’m not limited to one OS (I prefer Ubuntu though), I can have on “virtual HDD” as much virtual disk space as I want.

I have read that CoLinux focuses on performance, but I have no complains about Virtualbox performance on my current system with AMD dual-core CPU and 2 Gb RAM.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:22:03 +0000

VirtualBox. Complete (actually VirtualBox is not complete, processor is not really virtualized unlike VirtualPC and others) virtualization does come with performance hit but doesn’t restrict what you can do, what flavour of linux you can install and what apps you put on top of it.

By: blaszta

blaszta — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:46:01 +0000

@offhermeds & EP

Ulteo is much more like Paralles on Mac (where you can run native Windows application inside OS X). Please correct me if I’m wrong. With VMWare & VirtualBox, you need to load “the entire” OS to launch the app.

The problem is: (IMHO) there’s no “killer” linux application that can’t be run on Windows. We already have GIMP, blender, and so on that can be run on Windows.

Interesting, but not too usable (IMHO again).

By: EP

EP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:05:07 +0000

I’ll stick to VirtualBox…