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Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek
- omnipath 19y agoI don't know what to think about this. Isn't this basically giving up the ghost on Solaris? But on the other hand, no matter the underlying OS or hardware, it seems like Sun will be able to take advantage of the situation. Seems like a hedge bet to me than perhaps any real use, unless they embed it into Solaris. I was just about to try VirtualBox on Os X, by the by. Has anybody here tried it?
- bayareaguy 19y agoVirtualBox is fun. My kids use it to play their favorite old windows games on their OSX laptops. It seems to be about as functional as VMware was a few years go. The biggest difficulty I encountered setting it up was getting the drivers you need installed in the guest os.
- jws 19y agoI wonder if the "commercial license only" features of VirtualBox will become free. There are a couple of those that I've been wanting, but not enough to negotiate a license. VirtualBox on OS X is crippled at the moment because it doesn't do Leopard.
- mark_h 19y agoLeopard support (plus a few more mac improvements) was released a couple of days ago. Works fine so far in my experience.
- gibsonf1 19y agoThis is really nice sw and very easy to use. I'm setting up Ubuntu on my XP dell laptop right now - sweet!