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Sun aquires VirtualBox
- zenlinux 19y agoI discovered VirtualBox a few months ago and am now migrating to it away from VMWare Workstation. It's stable and performs well. It also offers the Parallels-like feature which allows you to run application windows from your VM in your host desktop environment. This is very handy for doing cross-browser web app testing, where you can (for example) put a Win IE7 browser window right next to your Linux Firefox one to compare things side by side.
- azsromej 19y agoI just set this up over the weekend. I hadn't heard of it before and was a little skeptical but it's a lot like the VMWare I've used at work. It's performing very well and offered some pretty flexible install options (I had an iso file I was going to burn until I noticed VirtualBox could just use it directly).
- Xichekolas 19y agoThe thing I really enjoy about VirtualBox is that it just works. I have been using it to run XP under a linux host for things like Skype, and it's really nice not to have to fight with configs and such. Hopefully Sun lets them keep the same ethos after the acquisition.
- there 19y agohttp://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120492689515501&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120492689515501&w...
- rms 19y agoThis is from 2/12/2008...