VMWare alternative.

Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux.com
Tue Jan 22 17:19:27 EST 2008


With all this discussion of VMWare, I thought I'd mention that there is 
a fully open source alternative to it that I just discovered. It's 
called VirtualBox:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

I've been using it alongside with VMWare Workstation 5.5 and don't 
notice any performance differences, which really surprised me. It's been 
rock solid running WinXP on top of Ubuntu. It also offers "seamless 
window" mode where you can open Windows application windows alongside 
your Linux apps. Very handy for doing things like cross-browser testing 
of web applications.

This may be old news to some, but I'm pretty excited about it.

Scott

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Scott Garman
sgarman at zenlinux dot com


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