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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I want to test run Arch Linux in a virtual machine, but don't know which hypervisor to choose. Is Virtual Box, or VMware the better Windows hypervisor for running Arch Linux? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tom_Dude to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: I decided to go with Virtual Box since Hyper-V just doesn't seem to work on my PC. Thank you everyone for the recommendations!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

VirtualBox will work just fine with the added benefit that you immediately have pretty seamless and working graphical environment. With vboxtools (or whatever that kit was called) you can even copy+paste between hypervisor and the virtual machine. Performance wise vmware might have a slight edge, but if you're running a homelab or just trying things around it's something not to worry about at all.