Volker A. Brandt wrote: > I had to think a while about your email. :-) > > >> Compare VirtualBox on Linux to Solaris or Linux to Mac OS X. It's much >> better under Linux. >> > > Hmmm... I am not sure I am catching the direction of your comparisons. > > >> It looks horrid regardless, but it seems pretty good on >> the performance side. >> > > You mean VB hosted on Linux is faster than hosted on Solaris or OSX. > I would consider that a bug which should be fixed. > > >> VMware's non-existance on the premier enterprise >> system is steering the enterprise off of Solaris, regardless of what other >> virtualization technologies Sun has recently added to their portfolio. >> > > Agreed. They should have bought VMware. Failing that, they should > have bought Xensource. Instead, they bought MySQL. :-( > > >> I see the problem being with education. People are not educated on UNIX != >> Linux, and that some systems are still suited better for particular >> purposes. For maintainance that may well be Windows, if you're talking >> about aggregated patch and image deployment it's the easiest and fastest >> here. If you're talking stability over a multi-year period, it's still >> Solaris, followed by FreeBSD. For performance it seems this is where Linux >> at least on x86 has actually proven itself, which may partly explain why >> VMware chose it instead of Solaris. In 1999 I doubt Solaris' performance >> was bad but that's how it is, can't maintain a large set of ports on a small >> team. Currently their team is huge enough to support every OS under the >> sun, just look how many ports Opera does. >> > > Well, some of that I agree with. :-) > > >> Companies that code for specific operating systems in the attempt to >> alienate others, but not because of technical reasons get my stamp of no >> approval over the long period. Regardless of how Opera shipped their >> package, it is native, they don't require you to use BrandZ and forward X11, >> which is a joke compared to FreeBSD's compat layer in terms of transparency. >> > > Yeah, I too am annoyed at Adobe... > > > Regards -- Volker > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris > Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ > Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: vab at bb-c.de > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgr??e: 45 > Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt > Regarding VirtualBox, I meant the performance versus other competitive products, such as VirtualPC, Virtual Server, Parallels Desktop, Parallels Workstation, VMware Server, VMware ESX, VMware Workstation (All closed-source) was quite good considering, I just find that the static Qt usage a tad retarded. (Perhaps short-sighed is a better way of putting it)
The comparison is mainly about certain popular titles putting effort into integrating into the host, in an effort to improve productivity and to lower the lingering pain of running alien themes together. Particularly the state of VirtualBox's UI under OS X needs a lot of work, it doesn't fool anyone. VirtualBox under OS X needs a lot of work under the hood as well, no bridging, no adoption, plain and simple, and don't mark it stable when the features aren't at parity guys. Lame. James
