Using Ubuntu in Virtualbox for development, is it stable and safe?

Question

I have been dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 7 for quite a while and I am annoyed by it to be honest and I have been looking at alternatives. I am currently wondering if virtualbox is stable enough for me to use for development.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ive been using Ubuntu in a Virtual box for almost a year now. No problems. I mainly just use eclipse and vim and command line stuff. It's done fine for me, and I know tons of other people who do the same and don't run into any issues.

Virtual box is the bomb.

Although for some reason the processor I have doesn't support virtualizing a 64 bit OS, even though its a 64 bit i5... odd thing, but it's no biggie to run 32 bit ubuntu for me.