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Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 17:58 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire) by marduk
Parent article: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Yes. I know it exists.

Still doesn't change anything. I am not talking about enterprise management of virtual
machines, I am talking about somebody using it on their laptop and wanting to connect hardware
and use Widnows on their Linux system fairly seamlessly. Two totally different kettle of fish.


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Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 20:47 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Virt-manager works for that use case for me just fine. Totally. 

Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

Posted Aug 12, 2008 21:17 UTC (Tue) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

For me too...

There's really not a big difference from configuring a new VM in i.e. VMware Workstation.

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