Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com) [LWN.net]

Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)

Posted Feb 13, 2008 23:08 UTC (Wed) by interalia (subscriber, #26615)
In reply to: Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com) by leoc
Parent article: Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)

No, I haven't tried VirtualBox yet actually... good reminder.  I haven't looked into it
closely, but I thought that the free GPLed version was crippled in a significant way compared
to their commercial offering?

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Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices (Techthrob.com)

Posted Feb 14, 2008 21:13 UTC (Thu) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link]

I think the free version is complete.  I've run OS/2, Windows and Linux under it.  The
drawback is that it is somewhat difficult to compile.  I would recommend getting the code from
subversion. The tarball drops do not contain some of the dependencies so their hokey build
system has trouble when you try to point it to versions installed separately.