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rasat

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From: Finland, working in Romania

Registered: 2002-12-27

Posts: 2,170

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VirtualBox

Didn't know VirtualBox is great. For many years I used Win4Lin until there was no support for kernel-2.6.12=>. Had to go back for dual booting, running native Windows. VirtualBox solve it.

If anyone is interested, read in Wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox

How-to:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox-HowTo

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Zeist

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Registered: 2008-07-04

Posts: 532

Re: VirtualBox

Umm... well... VirtualBox is hardly something new as it's been around for a few years now. By now it's more or less as famous as vmware in linux circles at least. I think that it is far better than Win4Lin ever really was so I think you'll appreciate the switch.

In my opinion VirtualBox is absolutely perfect for most virtualization purposes in a desktop environment and definitely a really good open-source alternative to vmware.

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: VirtualBox

Umm... well... VirtualBox is hardly something new as it's been around for a few years now. By now it's more or less as famous as vmware in linux circles at least. I think that it is far better than Win4Lin ever really was so I think you'll appreciate the switch.

In my opinion VirtualBox is absolutely perfect for most virtualization purposes in a desktop environment and definitely a really good open-source alternative to vmware.

Exacly. VMWare is still a bit more powerful, but VirutalBox is sweet. Sweet enough that Sun wanted to buy it

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dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,109

Re: VirtualBox

In my opinion VirtualBox is absolutely perfect for most virtualization purposes in a desktop environment and definitely a really good open-source alternative to vmware.

I'm starting to agree. After several years of patching VMware so that I could use the latest Linux kernels*, I finally gave in and tried VirtualBox just a month or so ago. So far, I haven't found anything that I need that VirtualBox doesn't offer. Occasionally I find that the USB stuff doesn't work quite as slickly as VMware's, but otherwise I've been perfectly happy. On my system, VBox even seems to be a little more responsive than VMware.

*In their defense, VMware never claimed to support those latest Linux kernels -- in fact, never claimed to support any Linux distro that I chose to use -- so I suppose I can't protest too much. Still, the relative ease with which I could get VBox to install on a brand new kernel made me a believer.

Last edited by dhave (2008-08-22 22:04:54)

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