[rescue] VirtualBox anecdotes - was Re: A wee bit off-topic

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 14:39:30 CDT 2015


By some accounts, about 90%+ of all desktops on the planet are windows
boxes...

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=9&qpc
ustomb=0

Lionel

> On Jun 21, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:
>
>> On 06/21/2015 12:40 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Hyper-V is available freely (as in beer) and is VERY capable in it's
latest
>> iteration. It can host Debian/Ubuntu VMs easily, as well as, of course, a
>> wide-range of Windows OSs.
>>
>> Also, windows 8 and beyond includes Hyper-V in the desktop OS, but it has
some
>> unusual processor requirements beyond those of the server edition of
Hyper-V
>> (SLAT support).
>>
>> http://m.windowsitpro.com/hyper-v/requirements-running-hyper-v-windows-8
>
> But who keeps a Windows box at home?
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