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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 19:13 UTC (Tue) by simonl (subscriber, #13603)Parent article: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)
I find virtualbox is faster (and better) than vmware. This is for running a Windows guest on a non-VT laptop. Vmware worked well back in 3.x versions. Current release has timer problems in Windows (slow keyboard repeat and animations), severe memleaks, loss of network when host IP changes, suspend/resume problems, and more. Virtualbox also has suspend/resume issues. It eats some CPU even when the guest seems idle. And networking can be tricky to get working. But I feel relieved. Windows guest runs smooth and feels much faster. Resolution changes are quick and flickerfree. Kernel module compile/install is simple and painless. I think we should appreciate that there exists a fully GPL'ed application of this quality.
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Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire) Posted Aug 13, 2008 6:49 UTC (Wed) by lab (subscriber, #51153) [Link] I find it a bit snappier than vmware as well, and dead easy to use. Very stable with an extremely attractive feature set. On my debain machine it uses 0-2% idle CPU, but not noticable on my machine's performance at all. I think it's a beautiful product, and just hope Sun won't screw it up, since the repositories disappeared, and it became a download and install only product. It would be great to have it 100% FOSS as well. If they can stay on the straight and narrow, virtualbox should have a shining future.
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