[lug] VirtualBox

[Chuck Morrison]

Windows XP Pro as a guest OS, worked fine for me. It is a virtual
instance, so won't make use of hardware goodies.

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:32 -0700, Brian Talley wrote:
> 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.
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