Intro
I'm new to virtualization, been reading about Xen, KMV, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMWare and others.
I still don't know which to implement or how, thus the post.
Thanks for your time.
What I want to do
One physical PC running Kubuntu: in one terminal the KDE environment and in the other a virtual machine running Windows 7 64bits. By Linux terminal I mean the text interface you find when pressing CTRL + ALT + Fx, and lets you log-in in parallel.
I'm trying to balance having two graphical environments against having everything on the same terminal being affected if a crash occurs in either the KDE environment or the virtual PC. This idea, I believe, would also allow me to run the virtual computer while having KDE shutdown.
Questions
Q1 - Which virtual software do you recommend?.
Q1a - Source of reading material to achieve what I describe?.
Q2 - How does the virtual machine will be rendered, what toll would have in the host computer?.
Q2a - Is there a way to reduce it, share a resource?.
Q3 - I been reading about Linux screen command, is managing screens the right way to do it?. <http://ss64.com/bash/screen.html>
Q4 - Do you have a better approach?.
Q5 - Recommendations?.
Added Requests
AR1 - Prevent the virtual machine from blocking keys that would allow switching between Linux terminals or assign new keys to the function.
AR2 - Automatically run the virtual machine in the extra terminal at start up.
AR3 - Set up key strokes, bootloader in such a way that the PC would start in one of the graphical environments, i.e. if I hold down Shif + F7 while booting KDE is not started and the focus changes to the terminal hosting the virtual Windows PC or vice versa.
AR4 - Have the the virtual images synced to a cloud. Any service in particular?.
AR5 - Attach an Android device to another terminal.
Again Thanks For Your Time.
I'm new to virtualization, been reading about Xen, KMV, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMWare and others.
I still don't know which to implement or how, thus the post.
Thanks for your time.
What I want to do
One physical PC running Kubuntu: in one terminal the KDE environment and in the other a virtual machine running Windows 7 64bits. By Linux terminal I mean the text interface you find when pressing CTRL + ALT + Fx, and lets you log-in in parallel.
I'm trying to balance having two graphical environments against having everything on the same terminal being affected if a crash occurs in either the KDE environment or the virtual PC. This idea, I believe, would also allow me to run the virtual computer while having KDE shutdown.
Questions
Q1 - Which virtual software do you recommend?.
Q1a - Source of reading material to achieve what I describe?.
Q2 - How does the virtual machine will be rendered, what toll would have in the host computer?.
Q2a - Is there a way to reduce it, share a resource?.
Q3 - I been reading about Linux screen command, is managing screens the right way to do it?. <http://ss64.com/bash/screen.html>
Q4 - Do you have a better approach?.
Q5 - Recommendations?.
Added Requests
AR1 - Prevent the virtual machine from blocking keys that would allow switching between Linux terminals or assign new keys to the function.
AR2 - Automatically run the virtual machine in the extra terminal at start up.
AR3 - Set up key strokes, bootloader in such a way that the PC would start in one of the graphical environments, i.e. if I hold down Shif + F7 while booting KDE is not started and the focus changes to the terminal hosting the virtual Windows PC or vice versa.
AR4 - Have the the virtual images synced to a cloud. Any service in particular?.
AR5 - Attach an Android device to another terminal.
Again Thanks For Your Time.