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You mean it isn't easy for you!! We all forget the struggles of doing something the first time. On another board there's a guy that advocates a VM as solution to every problem where it's remotely feasible. Nothing to it. Easy to set up. Then I looked back in his posts a couple years back. There were pleas for help setting up his first VM over several weeks before he got it all working. Everything is easy once you figure it out.
Multiple OS isn't all that difficult for me. I had 5 OS running off 2 HD on a 486 almost 20 years ago. Didn't even have the backup images they have now and all ran smooth.
A newb can spend weeks trying to get a VM right. Sure most of the stuff will work the same day. But getting everything to work may take weeks, like my pal on the other board. Also once you set up a VM then you are carrying it on that OS install. Another thing to get trashed if the OS gets trashed, rather than a self-contained bootable drive.
What's "easy" is what's easy for the person who already did it once.
Last edited by MilesAhead; 16 Aug 2011 at 18:11.