> Hmm, VirtualBox OSE (open source edition) as packaged in Ubuntu 9.10 > has everything that I've needed for creating and testing Evergreen > images. I think it's missing sound and USB drivers(?) but those seem > pretty useless in this particular context.
It has actually been a couple of years since I used OSE - maybe I'll give it another shot. When I tried it before, networking was a huge headache and there were some other limitations that I can't recall at the moment - I was still very much a newbie at the time :-). Thanks for mentioning this. Chris Sharp PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (404) 235-7147 csh...@georgialibraries.org http://pines.georgialibraries.org/ ----- "Dan Scott" <d...@coffeecode.net> wrote: > On 14 April 2010 11:16, Sharp, Chris <csh...@georgialibraries.org> > wrote: > >> Be aware though that Virtualbox has a free beer version and a free > >> speech version. > > > > Unfortunately, I prefer the free as in beer version, which provides > a lot of the extras you'll probably want for your project, Lori. > Sometimes practicality forces us F/OSS end users to compromise a > little bit :-) >