In a later article I will describe, as an alternative, installing Ubuntu Desktop with the help of Vagrant, including Visual Studio Code and Node.js. In this article the focus will be on manually installing Ubuntu Desktop. In this article, I will share with you the steps I took, to get this working within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. On my Windows laptop, I wanted to create an environment with Ubuntu as guest Operating System, Visual Studio Code and Node.js available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. For a TypeScript training, I needed an environment with Visual Studio Code and Node.js (a JavaScript runtime). Treat your measurements as a guideline only. One last note of caution though: Don't completely trust fine-grained perf results measured on VM's - even the best hypervisors cannot truly replicate the perf' characteristics of code running on bare-metal. Be sure to have enough RAM in the host to allocate enough working RAM to each VM and enough IO throughput that your host doesn't end up dragging the perf of all VM's down if one VM saturates the machine's IO. I suggest you build your VM's and try dual-booting your machine in Windows and Linux and measuring your scenario. a Linux box is, frankly impossible to tell. How your environment will run when hosted by a Windows vs.

Further reading on this here and here (YMMV). Therefore, if performance is a considerable concern, you may squeeze more juice out of Win8 or Windows Server 2012 box running, for example, Hyper-V. Note: VirtualBox is a type-2 hypervisor (it runs on the host OS, not on the hardware like a type-1 hypervisor) and tends to offer weaker performance than, for example, Hyper-V, ESX or XEN (type-1 hypervisors).

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