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[Brian Talley]

Just curious - did you test out any Windows OS's?

Thanks,

Brian S Talley
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On 2/21/07, Chuck Morrison <cmorrison at greeleynet.com> wrote:
> I'd never heard of it, but tried it out with several different guest
> OS's. I haven't used it as extensively as I have vmware, but it looks
> very functional. It does use a kernel module and networking (NAT) does
> work, although it doesn't do it as visibly as vmware does (vmnet). I
> wasn't able to get as large a window as I could with vmware, but that
> will probably come.
>
> It doesn't have the bells and whistles vmware does, but for a single
> instance (ie. personal use) it's worth a download. I succeeded in
> compiling the GPL'd source on ubuntu 6.10 without much problem besides
> getting required source and headers.
>
> I don't know if it would work for you or not. I never had any problem
> with vmware working for me. Licensing is a different issue.
>
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 01:27 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
> > Any opinins on VirtualBox?
> >
> > http://www.virtualbox.org
> >
> > I just found it, and I like the idea of a GPL replacement for VMWare (and as I
> > have mentioned on this list, VMWare was a disaster for me).
> >
> > Especially:
> >
> >   - is it as fast as VMWare?
> >   - is it stable?
> >
> > I know some of you are thinking "try it and see", but the idea of installing
> > something that I assume will alter my kernel like the VMWare install did
> > doesn't sound appealing to me unless it is very stable.