I’m a noob so maybe this should be a discussion. I am building a new computer around the i7 Intel processor. The computer will have two primary functions. The first will be my day-to-day use of Windows desktop programs (MS Office, web browsing, financial, etc.). The second function will be A/V including Slingbox, Mediamonkey, Win Media Player, VLC, etc.
My goal is to select the best operating system as the base under which to run the virtual machine(s). Past experiments led me to conclude VMPlayer offers better performance than VirtualBox for my needs. I would like to dedicate a monitor, mouse and keyboard to the A/v Win 7 system as well as a physical disk. I’m thinking my two options are some variant of Linux (Ubuntu?) with two Win 7 virtual machines or Win 7 as the base operating system with the A/V environment implemented in a Win 7 virtual machine. Has anyone played with this? Any suggestions/comments are welcome.
