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VirtualBox OSE released under the GPL

[Posted January 16, 2007 by cook]

InnoTek InnoTek has announced the release of VirtualBox Open Source Edition under the GNU General Public License. "VirtualBox OSE is the first professional PC virtualization solution released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL). With VirtualBox, customers get the most versatile virtualization product on the market, both for enterprise and individual use. VirtualBox' open source license allows everyone to contribute to the development of the product and customize it to suit individual needs." (Thanks to Daniel de Kok.)

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Posted Jan 18, 2007 6:39 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link]

Anyone tried this out? Interested in hearing how it compares to other options such as VMWare, Xen, etc..

VirtualBox OSE released under the GPL

Posted Jan 18, 2007 14:40 UTC (Thu) by timschmidt (guest, #38269) [Link]

I've been using it since it was released, on the 15th. Performance seems on par, if not slightly better than VMware Player. Best of all, it works well on Via's C3 CPUs - QEMU is the only other relatively modern virtualization software to pull off that feat.