macworld.com — Virtualization continues to be a big topic among Mac users with Intel-powered Macs. Products from Parallels and VMware allow you to easily run many different operating systems on your Mac, each within its own protected virtual environment. Recently, a third player entered the market—Sun, with its VirtualBox product.
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joebaloneyJul 19, 2008
I have VMWare Workstation 6 and VirtualBox running under Ubuntu and VirtualBox works a LOT better. Its faster and smoother, VMWare runs like absolute s**t on Ubuntu. BTW if you want USB support in Ubuntu you can't apt-get install it, you have to download the Sun version.
Closed AccountJul 20, 2008
I'm waiting to try out Sun's Virtualization Server product due out this summer, xVM server. The combo of xVM and X Ops Center will be pretty sweet.<a class="user" href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/xvm/index.jsp">http://www.sun.com/software/products/xvm/index.jsp</a>
corporalclegg24Jul 20, 2008
im not a hermit. wrong again.
moducJul 20, 2008
It runs great on OpenSuse 11. It comes with OpenSuse 11 DVD iso image. USB support works for me. I am not sure why. I use the VirtualBox OSE (open source edition). In fact, I run OpenSuse on USB external drive, and the VirtualBox on top of that. Crazy eh?
moducJul 20, 2008
I have a license copy of Parallels. It doesn't work on 64 bit. Feel bad after paid for it. But VirtualBox works well for me.
dugg2deathJul 20, 2008
End of the video he says no DirectX. Which really turned me off to it. Otherwise it would have been a great program for me.
lennyxJul 21, 2008
VirtualBox may have been around for ages on Windows & Linux, but the Mac version has only been out for a couple of months. This is the first that I've heard of it though & I think it stands up pretty well against the other Mac virtualization alternatives.
amenicJul 21, 2008
Apparently many people believe that Digg is only for articles that are fresh and new. I think many do not understand that it's easy to miss the boat on the first ferry across to new hot tech app land and that with each passing, it's new again to other people (just not you). This time, it was obviously new enough to make the front page! Now I think I understand why people line up to buy a phone. It's only cool when it's new and you have something others do not? I think it's pretty transparent, no?