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Mr-White

Mr-White

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Anyone else use this ?

I've been using it for about 2 weeks now and have found it to be an awesome piece of software. I'd been looking at various other VMs from vmware, xen server and Hyper-V but they all had some issue with me using it. The main reason for the VM software was for testing/studying.

With VB the software goes on top of an already installed o/s (or host o/s as they refer to it) and then each VM is installed from CD or iso. The software it's self can be installed on various versions of 32/64-bit Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac and then supports all of these as VMs. Each o/s is then run as an application, so you can run as many as your hardware will allow. The VM can be full screened so you wont notice the host o/s behind. For me this is really handy as it means one lot of hardware with multiple o/s' interconnected and at any time I like I can minimise back to the host o/s :)

My host o/s is 64-bit XP, although it's not mentioned as a supported host it seems to be running fine. I then have Server 2003, Server 2008, Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 installed as VMs.

MW
 
It is good. I much prefer it to the new VMWare. VMWare is alright but leaves its muddy footprints all over your system (it splatters your network connections with virtual adapters for example) where VirtualBox seems much simpler.
 
slylittlefox said:
Yep, love VirtualBox, kicks VMware Workstation's ass...

Everything just 'feels' better within it, might be placebo :p
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vmware didn't support my hardware
hyper-v legally would be expensive
xen server looked too complicated

I like the way it has installed everything for me and once full screened I forget it's a vm :)

MW
 
Yes, I love it. Have been using it on my Linux machine to run Windows for quite a while - I switched from the first version of VMWare Server. It does everything I need and the latest release even does 3D acceleration.
 
JonRohan said:
Whats VirtualBox like on Linux Guests? Does it run well?

I'd love to see a decent comparison between Vmware Workstation and VirtualBox.
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works flawlessly for me

I've never seen a piece of software get developed so vastly and so quickly

they now have openGL and D3D support in the newest beta!


the last awesome feature they need to add is direct drag/drop into the window
 
I've been having a play with Virtual box on an ubuntu 9 system. Seems very stable and by default Ubuntu uses a lot less system ram than visa (400mb vs 800mb respectively).

However, I have noticed that virtualbox will max the cpu instantly on ubuntu, is this common? I don't have that problem with vista. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

I do like virtual box though.
 
Keep meaning to try Sun's VirtualBox software. With the takeover by Oracle, and Oracles recent purchase of Virtual Iron and development of their own Xen based hypervisor it'll be interesting to see how they combine all the expertise and what direction xVM Server + VirtualBox take in the next year or two :)
 
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