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- krewemaynard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Let me know when Microsoft releases their VM software under the GPL.
- LogicallyGenius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8seems like people have no idea about how important this software is, hence the low digg count
- sauron256, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@nailer
"Virtual PC is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and an emulation suite for Apple Mac OS X."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_virtual_pc - sauron256, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This can only be good news. Extra kudos to the company for including bittorrent downloads of the software.
The company is still hawking two versions of the software. The open source edition is "functionally equivalent to the full VirtualBox package, except for a few features that primarily target enterprise customers."
If only more companies would do this! - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That makes no sense whatsoever. It's not like someone came in and erased his hard drive. What do you mean "lose years of work"?
- Aleksej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Virtual PC died in 2003. It wasn't freeware back then, though.
But who cares about freeware now, when many people are aware of free software? - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It is going to face some competition with strong players like XenSource and OpenVZ. Still, without the Open Source license, it simply could not distinguish itself or boast any added value (competitive advantage is missing).
- diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3clear this up for me: is this a new product or was it just recently open sourced? I can't tell from the description.
edit: the submitter probably should have just linked to this page http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News . Basically, yes, it was open sourced today. - pygi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4We are talking open source, not the way of "free" like VMware does with it's Virtual Server,
or Microsoft like the one above me mentioned :)
Was supposed to be reply to Elliot xD - krillion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1installing Centos on it now (using winxp).. Funny I just loaded Kubuntu on my work PC and was gonna check out some VM software(gotta have windows) when presto DIGG threw this gem at me :)....
Oh no centos just got an exception error..yikes
win2k installed great though.. - schnibitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree with the 3D sentiments. It's a feature that is sorely missed in all of the VM products, and yes including Parallels. Even as an end-user, I could not care less if the performance sucks, I just want to see it as a feature . . . Soon.
- Steve95613, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4"Parrallels is vaporware at the moment"
huh?? - pablasso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah... just the little fact that it is not supported, not opensource, and just for windows and mac
- pablasso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OpenVZ and XenSource are meant for virtual servers (VPS) and not mainly for desktop virtualization.. heck the 'full' XenSource is not even opensource and is trimmed like the free version of VMWare..
So this looks like a nice addition to me. - nailer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Last time I checked Virtual PC and Virtual Server weren't virtualization products, they were emulators, hence the ***** performance. Has this changed?
- nailer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Quickest reply ever! Thanks Sauron.
/me hi fives the giant eye - wannabecanuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks promising; however, it's another product that doesn't support PowerPC machines. :(
- pygi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0True, but the support can be worked on now more easily.
- sp1nm0nkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a seriously cool piece of software. I've been thinking of hacking up one of the virtual machine thingys so it supported something like parallels' coherence where windows are managed by the host... and even if I don't use this to do it... it sure has a ton of great code that I can look at for reference... especially the video drivers... really cool stuff.
- pygi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Virtual PC does use virtualization, virtual server as well.
- deltaphc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Virtual PC does virtualization on Windows and emulation on Mac OS X.
- opieum, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Now if developers are intrested they can also learn and work on 3D virtualization. This is a feature that none of the Virtualzation programs have. VMware has it but not to the extent that you can game with it. Parrallels is vaporware at the moment. They claimed soon but it has been some time now.
From what I was able to gather tho Virtualbox seems like a heavily modified QEMU to me. There were components in there from QEMU. This could just be a fork ala Wine to Cedega type of thing - douggmc, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I don't know why you are being dugg down ... ***** hilarious. I thought knowing "the material" was mandatory for office workers/techies :) Let's see everybody's "O" face!
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1That's too bad. I'm sure some developer is going to lose years of work because a bunch of people decided they don't care if the code he designed is exposed to all the other people who weren't clever enough to design it.
- tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5It has to be said, are these guys at Innotek a bunch of pussies?
- aldracu, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0*****
- macen, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Yea what is wrong with virtual pc/server.They do the job just as well!!!!!!!!
Guess what?you pay:$0.00.
What a bargain!!! - ElliotShoe, on 10/12/2007, -16/+4Hey what about Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server? Those are free. Whats wrong with those?
OH yeah, made by M$...
nice alternative
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