Virtual Box and seamless integration?
As of late I've been doing a lot of rebooting to switch between the various OS I have installed on my computer. This has, of course, been pretty tedious. So I installed virtual box on my windows drive and installed Ubuntu linux on it. So far so good, but I'd really like to be able to run my programs in a (superficially) native fashion. Like one can do with Wine in linux. Is there any way I can do this? And if so, if you have used this before is there a performance drop at all?
That makes no sense. If your emulating Ubuntu in Windows, why would you install a Windows emulator in Ubuntu? As far as performance goes, I never encountered a significant drop emulating Windows in Ubuntu. However I recommend sticking with dual-booting Ubuntu. The wubi program is fantastic for it!
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You misunderstood what I said. In wine, you can set it so there is no emulated desktop, an emulated windows program will run in the same area as your native ones. I was wondering if VirtualBox had a similar feature for guest OS installed on them (turns it does, easily enough it's called Seamless Mode, all you have to do is install the add-ons in the guest OS)
As for dual booting, that's not really an option for how often I'm having to switch between them all. I currently have a Windows install, an OS X install, an Ubuntu install, a Slackware Install, and a drive I have specifically for playing with experimental, or neat looking alternative OS. On an average day I'll have to switch between Windows, OS X, and either of the Linux 3 or 4 times. Since I spend most my time in windows I decided to create a back up image of OS X Slackware and Ubuntu, install them each on virtual disks, and then restore those images in there. Now I can keep one OS up at all times and switch between the others quickly.
The whole Seamless integration thing was just for convenience
As for dual booting, that's not really an option for how often I'm having to switch between them all. I currently have a Windows install, an OS X install, an Ubuntu install, a Slackware Install, and a drive I have specifically for playing with experimental, or neat looking alternative OS. On an average day I'll have to switch between Windows, OS X, and either of the Linux 3 or 4 times. Since I spend most my time in windows I decided to create a back up image of OS X Slackware and Ubuntu, install them each on virtual disks, and then restore those images in there. Now I can keep one OS up at all times and switch between the others quickly.
The whole Seamless integration thing was just for convenience
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