I have been afraid to invest much time in VirtualBox now that Oracle has its hands wrapped around the software. I am looking for alternatives to VirtualBox. Shame though as I used to like it a lot. All I can think is that everyone will be sorely disappointed when they decide whatever they decide to do with it.
Meh On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]>wrote: > Virtualbox is pretty decent for that sort of thing but I don't know > what the status of that project is since Oracle bought Sun. > > Chris > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris McQuistion > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine > and > >> you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need > access > >> to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. > >> > >> Chris > >> > > > > I was in the process of configuring VMware Server when I found that > > VMware Server has been declared end-of-line and VMware will drop > > support on June 30... I know it works, and I can get it now, and it > > sounds like what I need. I'm just not sure I want to learn on > > software that won't be available in the future. > > > > It appears VMware's recommended free version is now VMware Player. > > From what I've read it has a quite different modus operandi, > > capabilities, etc. > > > > The machine I plan to install it on is an Intel Core2 vPro processor > > (E8500). Evidently it has VT, but it must have been one of the early > > chips with VT (default is off). That opens possibilities I didn't > > think I had. > > > > I don't expect to do a lot in Windows, but there are some Windows > > programs I just can't completely get away from... > > > > It will be going over the internet, so security is an issue. I can > > tunnel through SSH, etc. as needed. > > > > Does anyone have a favorite VM in this situation (Linux host, with > > Windows as guest)? > > > > Paul Boniol > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<nlug-talk%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
