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- smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19"A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer..."
In which a virtual user in a virtual world virtually watches porn. Kinda like the matrix. - uwjames, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11damn Aussies
- sabach, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I'm using VirtualBox to check out new distros. I recently installed Vista in a VM so I can learn how to support it. I wouldn't use it for production servers but it's great for testing out ideas, for virtual production servers we're planning to use either VMWare or Xen but we still don't really have enough need for them to justify it. I support, among others, a police dept and the detectives are looking for ways to use their existing computers to troll the web for sexual predators. A VirtualBox install of XP or Vista would allow them to do that with no risk to their existing OS. It's a nice little tool and I recommend it heartily.
- xelnaga666, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Im using VirtualBox for distro testing too. I prefer this so much over vmware. VMware seems to be much more bloated for the average person who simply wishes to run a few new distributions in a VM or Windows XP on the side of a great linux distrobution for FF7 and IE :P hehe. Yes, virtualbox can take simple 3d rendering before anyone says otherwise. I also found VirtualBox to handle shares between host/client nicely too.
- RavenRiley, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Is Parallels better than VirtualBox?
They ruled it out because it costs too much so I'm wondering. - obsaysditto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4i started using Virtual Box when i wasnt able to load Ruckus onto linux using wine.... it works great
- cdmarcus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2How much RAM do you have? For anything not using accelerated graphics, with enough RAM, it's usually almost as fast as a non-virtualized system. You just need enough RAM to support both the host OS and the guest OS at the same time.
- subxero37, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Vista in a virtual machine? You must have a seriously awesome computer on your hands.
- GhostSniper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=774119
- schotty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Thanks for the history lesson. I knew none of that, and glad I do now. At least now we will have another respectable competitor to VMWare. More clean competition is good. Parallels is in a gray area for me, although I have purchased both the mac and lin/win versions. Vmware is just better.
With that knowledge, I may have to check out the paid Innotek version and the FLOSS version and see how well they fare for me. - BassJunkie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I use Virtualbox purely to allow me to access XP apps from within Ubuntu - saves having to mess around with Wine! I'm actually hoping to have a kinda dual dual boot setup on my new laptop whereby I have Vista and Ubuntu on seperate partitions and XP as a VM that I can access from either - thanks to the NTFS-3G project :-)
The ability to test OS's is also very good with this type of software to, which is something else I plan to try and get into once I can get a bit more HDD space :-P - salimmk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2no sir the real solution is to use Wubi
- sqrt7744, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2neat-o, how did you do that?
- armo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I'm using it with seamless rdp so it works like parallels coherence mode on mac os. You can move all your XP windows around different workspace rather than being confined to the virtualised desktop. Here's a nice howto
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=433359 - schotty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Considering Parallels is a mere $80 at worse case (on a Mac its $80, $50 on Lin/Win), I dont see that as expensive at all.
- oobuntu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2i installed it after believing the hype. i found it tediously slow.
- HsoKinees, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1on a side note, yesterday i tried running gutsy tribe2(i think) in Vmware 6... just after that loading applications bar appeared, it seems to have reset the VM! no idea why.. i think the message was something like "cannot support this frequency" o_O must be something to do with me using Minimal Power Management on my CPU... i loaded up VirtualBox, which i've had installed for many months but have hardly used... and it loaded up gusty without issues! i wonder what's going on o_O
- SanjoEel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1VirtualBox is a lot of fun and very useful but it's still a little rough around the edges. I use it to run virtual windows xp on my ubuntu box.
- schotty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, I do the same thing, and it isnt so bad (VMWare Server). Vista kills off Aero Glass when in a VM, which coincidentally is where all the bloat seems to be congregating at :D
Its slow, yes, but not that bad. For my main VM, I have a slim 2k Pro VM using 128MB of RAM that is a near instant resume/suspend. I reccomend that to anyone that just needs something to run an occasional windows only app. I use it for iTunes, since it actually works correctly with Podcast syncing (no other player I know of will auto remove the played podcasts on my iPod and add in the new ones). - straxus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Virtualization != Emulation
- straxus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Virtualization != Emulation
- TexanPsycho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1VirtualBox is a great little app and it's so easy to use. Ubuntu Server Edition doesn't work though. And LinuxMCE may not but LinuxMCE's installation is a bitch anyway.
- sabach, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I didn't say it ran well, took 3 minutes to boot. I only did it to see where they hid all the menu items.
- swordedge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I know Innotek, the stewards of VirtualBox as an IBM Business Partner and as "the" answer IBM gave customers looking for custom OS/2 apps for the last 8 years of that OS. That is, IBM sent their customers to Innotek when they wanted custom software.
They were also stewards of something called "Project Odin," a means of running windows programs on OS/2. The difference between it and wine was that other then how functions get called, the instructions are the same, being the same processor. So Odin actually ran Windows code like it was native excepting that they delt with the differences in function calls. The only things they had to rewrite was stuff that delt with the OS directly or hardware. It worked very well and in fact, the last four java versions they did for OS/2 were Odin results and users couldn't tell the difference.
In short, VirtualBox's stewards are very good (you have to be to get that vaunted IBM Business Partner label) - ahuxley, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Use vbox and xubuntu on my Mac Pro.
- Cherubim, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2VirtualBox is good but doesn't have the level of functionality that VMWare offers.
I mainly use Virtual machines for OS testing, troubleshooting and some development work in Visual Studio. - schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+7How long before VMWare goes GPL just like Innotek?
- schotty, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Never.
They have been aiding the kernel and xen quite a bit with improving and creation of standards. That to me means alot more. Having a unified fake hardware that can be tweaked is uber useful as is the standard vm format of the disk images and the conf files. - swordedge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1not spam. It's free and open source. Like other things you don't pay for, it isn't as good as most paid versions but the price is right.
- albertross, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1> runs on Windows and GNU/Linux, with an Intel Mac version in
- iapx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Waow it ever has a Mac OS X version. Still in Beta but I will give it a run!
- Retuow, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I use it to test distros too, but the only downside to it is that it actually emulates a videocard, and therefore you can't run Beryl for instance on it..
- sinu, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0think it runs both on linux and widows but perfom in windows better
- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -8/+3๑۩۞۩๑!!!
- pixelat3d, on 10/30/2007, -7/+2You mean you can use software to emulate things that are emualteable!? ... seriously, enough of these posts already, none of this stuff is new.
- newzooreview, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1Please dig down this spam. There's nothing here but vapid promotion of a product that is neither innovative nor unique.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -18/+5.ʞsıp pɹɐɥ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɯɹoɟ ɹǝɥʇɐɹ p1noʍ ı
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