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List of common desktop virtual machines for Windows, LINUX and Mac OS X operating systems. |
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| Host OS |
Virtualization Software |
WINDOWS as Guest OS |
LINUX as Guest OS |
Mac OS X as Guest OS |
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| Windows OS |
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| VMware Workstation |
Yes |
yes |
no |
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| Microsoft Virtual PC |
Yes |
yes |
no |
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| SUN Virtual BOX |
Yes |
yes |
no |
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| LINUX OS |
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| VMWare |
Yes |
yes |
no |
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| Citrix XEN |
Yes |
yes |
no |
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| Virtual Iron |
Yes |
yes |
no |
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| MAC OS |
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| VMWare Fusion |
Yes |
yes |
yes* |
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| Parallels Server |
Yes |
yes |
yes* |
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Mac OS X can in principle run on any host, but it is not officially supported. A star (*) denotes license issues (January 2009). | ||||
Kind et al. Journal of Cheminformatics 2009 1:18 doi:10.1186/1758-2946-1-18 |
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