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I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a superior product to VMWare Workstation: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [hidden email] [hidden email] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> As in this is the best thing since... > > I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a > superior product to VMWare Workstation: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community Doug; Thanks for that link...rather fascinating. I've used both VMware workstation for Linux, Fusion for OS X, and Parallels. Currently hosting 3 VM's (32-bit, 64-bit Ubuntu and Windows XP) under VMWare Fusion (OS X). I'll give Virtual Box a try. Has anyone tried the Solaris version for running VM's on a Solaris box? -Nick > > > --Doug > > -- > Doug Roberts, RTI International > [hidden email] > [hidden email] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ---------------------------------------- Nicholas S. Frost 7 Avenida Vista Grande #325 Santa Fe, NM 87508 [hidden email] ---------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > As in this is the best thing since... > > I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a > superior > product to VMWare Workstation: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community > > --Doug Hi Doug, thanks for the pointer. Generally virtualization runs into difficulties with the network .. both wireless and wired, and with peripherals (printers etc). Any difficulties in that world? Actually, on of the more interesting virtualization stunts is Amazon EC2 and similar "cloud" computing stunts. Just pour any OS into a container and the sophisticated server back ends manage to run them just fine. Way cool! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Douglas Roberts wrote:
> As in this is the best thing since... > > I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a > superior product to VMWare Workstation: VMWare has the advantage of running 64 bit clients. Also VMware can replay code e.g. trace and replay debugging... ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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Hi, Owen.
VirtualBox works "out of the box" (wired or wireless) with NAT networking enabled. You can also set up a bridge between the host & the guest if you need a fixed IP address to your guest. Haven't found any peripherals yet that don't work. Re: Marcus' observation that VMWare supports 64 bit guest OS's: true. But, VMWare is slower than dog poo on a Linux host when using shared folders to a Windows guest.. VirtualBox is fast. At the moment, I got a virtual Windows XP guest & a virtual Kubunto 8.04 guest cooking away on my Linux host, and I have not found anything that does not work on the guests. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [hidden email] [hidden email] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
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VirtualBox 2.0 was released today, and now has 64-bit guest OS support:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080904.1.xml On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Douglas Roberts wrote:
> VirtualBox 2.0 was released today, and now has 64-bit guest OS support: > > http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080904.1.xml In honor of the occasion, I must build it from source! :-) Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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I know the feeling. BTW, As others have reported this morning, VirtualBox 2.0 does not allow you to build a (K)Ubuntu 64 bit OS. Not *quite* ready for prime time yet.
I confirmed that the Kubuntu installer only detects an i586 processor when trying to install from th eis file (kubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso). --Doug On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Douglas Roberts wrote: > >> As in this is the best thing since... >> >> I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a >> superior product to VMWare Workstation: >> > VMWare has the advantage of running 64 bit clients. Also VMware can > replay code e.g. trace and replay debugging... > screenshots, movies, etc. My experience testing VirtualBox was quite different. Installed on a Dell D820 Core 2 Duo running 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), VirtualBox didn't do very well running a stripped-down version of Windows XP...the window positioning, input capture (mouse, keyboard), and full screen transitions were buggy. I abandoned VirtualBox for a 64-bit version of VMWare Workstation for Linux version 6.0.5 build-109488 which works smoothly. I like the VirtualBox concept though, particularly it's multi-platform nature...it would be *very* nice to have a hypervisor for Solaris x86. At some point if I ever have the time, I'll test the Solaris version. -Nick ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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If I were VMWare, I'd be worried. Now there's xVM Server.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1358231 The Sun products might not currently be be a mature as VMWare, but it looks like Sun has put some horsepower behind their development. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [hidden email] [hidden email] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Nick Frost <[hidden email]> wrote:
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