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Welcome to the Open Source experience... sadly.
by Double_a_92 8y ago
Welcome to the Open Source experience... sadly.
- darkwater 8y agohttps://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
- Retra 8y agoAs opposed to what? Most proprietary tools don't have good documentation either. And then you may not even be able to look at the code to see what it does.
- oblio 8y agoI don't get why he's downvoted. Virtualbox (which is not proprietary), VMWare, Hyper-V are way easier to use. That's a fact. And not many people need to look at the code in real life...
- bonzini 8y agoYou should compare VirtualBox to virt-manager or GNOME Boxes, not QEMU, just like you shouldn't compare Visual Studio to gcc.
- oblio 8y agoYeah, but VirtualBox & co. come as a package. virt-manager and Gnome Boxes, as you can see from the other comments, have been missed by various people trying to use these tools :)
- nurettin 8y agoI am on my third confusing error using virt-manager to create an armv7 build environment. First one was some ca-cert error, which meant I forgot to type a slash somewhere in some URL, second was something about not being able to enable firewall, which required firewalld and dnsmasq to be installed, now I'm having an error adding a qcow2 image to my vm setup, it probably doesn't like my mounted storage. We can compare this experience to terrible vendor lockins.