First, choose the right Linux Version Recommendations:
1, Linux desktop system, the preferred Ubuntu;
2, the server-side Linux system, the preferred RHEL or CentOS, which is the preferred CentOS,
If you do not consider the cost can also choose Rhel,rhel Copyright, CentOS is not copyright;
3, if the security requirements are high, you can choose Debian or FreeBSD;
4. Need to use Database users of advanced services and e-mail network applications can choose SuSE (many in Germany);
5. New technology and features, Fedora is a beta or pre-release version of RHEL and CentOS.
Here we want to focus on the server domain with no copyright constraints, so choose the Linux version as Centos-6.5-i386-bin.iso.
The Server field recommends choosing a more stable old version, we choose version 6.5 .
Second, the choice of virtual machine:
the VMware Workstation is commonly used.
the virtual machine software recommended by the Windows system is VMware;
the virtual machine software recommended by MacOS System is Vsan PC;
Ubuntu System recommended virtual machine software is Xen, KVM, VMware (Linux version).
Linux version vs. virtual machine selection