Re: [orca-list] Need to make a VM

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Actually, more than a few people would advise against running a Linux 
virtual machine on top of Windows, for the security and stability 
reasons you mention. If for whatever reason your course instructor is 
unwilling to break the cycle of Microsoft addiction, then your virtual 
machine on top of Linux is the way to go, since anything that can harm 
your Windows installation will only touch the virtual machine, which you 
can snapshot and roll back at any time.

Your best virtual machine is in fact VirtualBox, inspite of issues some 
people have getting it to work with Orca, unless you want to try to get 
qemu working with kvm. Since I left the world of x86_64 for the most 
part a couple of years ago, I haven't tested either option recently to 
be sure they still work. Last I checked though, you could create your 
either create a VirtualBox using its graphical interface and then right 
click the list item and put it on your desktop, or you could script a 
qemu command that will start your virtual machine. Check out 
qemu-create-image and the qemu command itself to get a qemu virtual 
machine working. I once used both of these options for testing other 
Linux distributions, and both worked quite well, although VirtualBox did 
seem to run my CPU a bit hotter than qemu.
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