VMWare alternative.

Sarunas sarunas at mail.saabnet.com
Wed Jan 23 08:11:41 EST 2008


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Scott Garman wrote:
> 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.
> 
It also can boot and run VMWare-created virtual systems. No conversion
needed.

Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator
Dept. of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
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