[lug] VirtualBox

[Chuck Morrison]

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.
> 
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