So, attempting to set up a virtual machine on Ubuntu now leaves me some choices (again, which is mostly a good thing).
Attempting to set up a secure Windows environment is never easy. Maybe one of the better/best ways to do this is to simply use VMs and virtualised software…
First, I need virtualisation host software. VMware ESXi and any other hypervisors are out of the question, because we already have an OS. Besides, despite being comfortable with ESXi (and also have somewhat generous “limits” on their “free” version from v5.5 and up), ESXi is pretty strict in terms of supported hardware.
Having looked at some of the “popular” ones out there, including Oracle’s VirtualBox, Citrix’s Xen, and Red Hat’s KVM (not to be confused with the common abbreviation KVM), I finally decided on KVM.
Even with VirtualBox’s ability to use “integrated mode“, I still believe that having low-level integration with the kernel and open source is more important than reliance on a specific kernel version (note: linked search only shows results from past year to show “current” reported issues as at time of search).
