Best Virtual OS software: VirtualBox 3.0.4

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Dragos in Apps, Photoshop

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When you need to quickly run a program which is not supported on your current operating system, most likely you’ll want to install a virtual operating system. Virtual operating system can run simultaneously with other operating systems, so you can easily/efficiently to your work quickly. Let’s say you’re a true Linux adept and need to quickly edit an image, but Photoshop is just not supported on Linux distributions. Yes, I know there is GIMP, but let’s face it, GIMP still hasn’t some features that Photoshop has. So what you’ll do now is: 1. Restart your computer and boot into a Windows OS,so you can use Photoshop from there; or 2. Quickly start your virtual Windows OS, do whatever you need and close it, but without the need to reboot your machine and so on..

It’s obvious that the second variant is better in this case. So now we need to chose a good virtual OS software. My choice is definitely VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is quick, has a great user interface, is stable, and has good integration between the host OS and the virtual OS.

To get VirtualBox go to their official website and choose your right installation for your system.By the way, it’s free!

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads