VMWare alternative.

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:19:27 -0500
Scott Garman <sgarman at zenlinux.com> 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.

I've been running it on my 64-bit Ubuntu laptop (2GB memory) as well as
my 32-bit SuSE 10.3 desktop system (3/4 GB).  The virtual machine on
the desktop system was a bit slow but it was installing updates, and
other things. I was actually surprised that the XP Vm performed as well
as it did. 

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