On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, but I've had occasional problems. I was using VirtualBox and left an > XP instance running for awhile, and forgot about it, but it eventually took > down the whole system! It's safer to get it out of the Linux box > altogether. I value the stability of Linux, but running Windows inside of > Linux jeopardize that. I still use XP in Vbox sometimes, but with > trepidation. I prefer to use a separate machine with some kind of remote > control between them (e.g., VNC) and sharing of disk drives. Well that would either be an issue with Virtualbox or how you had the VM configured (perhaps taking up too many resources?). Having a VM crash, no matter the guest OS, should *never* take down the host. If it does, that's a virtualization layer issue. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131125/5c9a0bf3/attachment-0001.html>