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fishoil

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I'm currently taking Comparative Operating systems class that has us install different operating systems on a dell optiplex 380. So my question is can I set up ESX, Virtualbox or whatever on my home pc to act like a dell optiplex 380 on my home computer? That way if I'm installing a distro of linux it will want the same drivers or possibly have the same conflicts, etc. Does this make any sense? Sorry, I'm new to virtualization. :(
 
ESX will take over your entirebox so no more desktop for you., Virtualbox would be a good one or the free vmware server would be another good start. that way you can install a guest OS and not have to dual boot or any of the other fun stuff.
 
calvinj said:
ESX will take over your entirebox so no more desktop for you., Virtualbox would be a good one or the free vmware server would be another good start. that way you can install a guest OS and not have to dual boot or any of the other fun stuff.
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So ESX is out.

Thanks for the quick reply.
 
you won't be able to emulate the dell, the virtualization software has set drives and computer it emulates.
 
fishoil said:
So my question is can I set up ESX, Virtualbox or whatever on my home pc to act like a dell optiplex 380 on my home computer?
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No.
Virtualization is the opposite of what you want to do. It completely abstracts the hardware so that you don't need to deal with drivers that a specific piece of hardware needs. What you want is hardware emulation, no idea what software out there will take an image of your hardware and emulate it though.

EDIT: Sigh, had this posting window open for too long before submitting the post.
 
The positive about a virtual machine is there is a simple driver package that it usually automatically installs called integration tools that takes care of all your drivers for you, therefore you don't have to go hunting.
 
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