It is always a challenge to
keep both OS operational without any glitches in a dual booting
operating system. This is primarily because a bad shutdown on active
(working) OS won’t be recognized by the passive (non-working) OS. So the
active OS will run chkdsk while the passive operating system may
develop bad data sectors going unchecked. Dual Booting or Virtual Machine.At
the same time a dual booting OS recognizes all the hardware on the
system. This makes it easy to install hardware in a dual booting
scenario. Installing hardware on the Virtual machine varies in case of
different operating systems.
Installation and removal of a dual
Operating system seems to be somewhat difficult. However doing so on a
Virtual machine is just something like deleting a file.
Installed
OS on a Virtual machine fails to load on failure of the primary
Operating System. In dual booting both operating systems load
independently. In a networking environment when the functioning
applications are available on the network, the dual booting OS could
work as backup in case the other crashes.
Summarizing Dual booting or Virtual Machine :
Virtual machine can be termed as developer machines used for testing.
VM’s
use minimum machine resources so you can do multi tasking in the same
primary operating system. Dual booting needs rebooting to switch the OS.
Virtual machine cannot work as back up OS as in the case of dual booting systems.
Configuring
hardware is bit difficult in case of Virtual Machine’s. It is much
easier to take benefit of hardware resources and install them too.
Recommended Virtual machines :
There
are many free and paid virtual machine alternatives available. We have
however shortlisted 3 of the VM’s. It depends on users requirements as
to which VM would be useful.
1) VirtualBox from Oracle (Free Download)
2) Hyper V (Inbuilt in Windows 8)
3) VMware (Premium)
Virtual Box has always been developers charm for its ease of handling.
We hope this article puts an end to the query “Dual booting or Virtual Machine”.
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