{"id":966,"date":"2015-04-30T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=966"},"modified":"2015-04-30T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T09:07:44","slug":"the-desktop-virtualization-dearth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"The desktop virtualization dearth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe how few options there are for desktop virtualisation (or virtualization) on Windows. I&#8217;m <a title=\"Desktop virtualisation across different hosts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=362\" target=\"_blank\">using VirtualBox<\/a> to host Linux on Windows but I have a BIG problem with a BIG snapshot file that seems to keep growing to 20GB+ making the available space on my Windows partition shrink and shrink away.<\/p>\n<p>It seems even the big virtualisation vendors like Microsoft, Parallels and Citrix have lost interest in a personal desktop virtualization product. VMWare and VirtualBox look like the only viable options.<\/p>\n<p>I have downloaded the latest <a title=\"Bochs\" href=\"http:\/\/bochs.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bochs<\/a> and will give that a go. There\u2019s certainly a market opportunity here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe how few options there are for desktop virtualisation (or virtualization) on Windows. I&#8217;m using VirtualBox to host Linux on Windows but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,37],"tags":[138,123,65],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-virtualization","tag-desktop-linux","tag-opensource","tag-virtualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}