On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:19:27 -0500 Scott Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With all this discussion of VMWare, I thought I'd mention that there is > a fully open source alternative to it that I just discovered. It's > called VirtualBox: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > I've been using it alongside with VMWare Workstation 5.5 and don't > notice any performance differences, which really surprised me. It's been > rock solid running WinXP on top of Ubuntu. It also offers "seamless > window" mode where you can open Windows application windows alongside > your Linux apps. Very handy for doing things like cross-browser testing > of web applications. I've been running it on my 64-bit Ubuntu laptop (2GB memory) as well as my 32-bit SuSE 10.3 desktop system (3/4 GB). The virtual machine on the desktop system was a bit slow but it was installing updates, and other things. I was actually surprised that the XP Vm performed as well as it did. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
