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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 13, 2008 6:49 UTC (Wed) by lab (subscriber, #51153)
In reply to: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire) by simonl
Parent article: Sun's FOSS VirtualBox hits the sweet spot for Linux (ITWire)

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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