Dual Boot

[mlknez]

I had no speed issues on Ubuntu under Hyper-V on the SP.

 

[Inadorel]

VMware workstation works great for me. I run it all the time and a base install of Linux only uses a relatively small amount of memory. Of course that is very dependent on how nice your custom apps play - if they are GUI based or not optimally coded they could use up a lot of resources. Having said that I would have thought you could get at least a couple of VMs running on an SP.

 

[vinumsv]

I am running a Virtualbox and inside it a Ubuntu x64 13.04 and inside it a Windows XP malware testing setup (Cuckoo Sandbox) :wink: , I disable Unity as i don't use, it requires much more resources so just enabled default Gnome Interface.

 

[Kalimero]

Just so you know, Ubuntu runs really well under hyper-v on the SP. So does Mac OSX, Windows 7, DOS, Windows XP, et. al., without having to dedicate a partition.

I was expecting much from hyper-v but there were two problems. First i could not install the drivers under Linux mint or Ubuntu. Second even on energy save mode and without charging hyper-v made my surface stays at maximum cpu-load which inst good for long working sessions.