Mike Raiford wrote:

> Andrew, you should check out Virtual Box, too:
> 
> http://www.virtualbox.org/

I am a sick, sick individual. I'm trying out Virtual Box by running it 
INSIDE A VIRTUAL MACHINE! :-D

I created a VMware virtual machine, installed Windows, installed Virtual 
Box for Windows, and then created a Windows VM inside that.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this doesn't actually *work*. (Presumably the 
CPU hardware doesn't support nested virtualisation...) But the program 
gets far enough for me to see what the user interface is like and what 
options are available, etc.

(I wonder... Is there some option I can flip inside VMware to make 
nested VMs work? Perhaps if I turn off hardware virtualisation or 
something...)

> Sun's offering of a VM. It comes in an OpenSource and binary flavor, and 
> can run on a variety of host systems. I've used it several times, and it 
> works nicely, and seems to run at a decent clip.

If you get the Open Source version, you have to somehow compile it 
yourself. (!!) I'll have to set up a Linux VM before I can try that...

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