S h i v wrote: > It had been just a couple of days back that I downloaded Virtual Box > sources to build on OpenSolaris and below piece of news arrives. > > Sun has bought Virtual Box: > http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/sun_grabs_virtualbox > > Interesting aspects about Virtual Box: > 1. It is a native virtualization and full virtualization meaning it > allows an unmodified guest OS to run (unlike xVM/Xen on OpenSolaris) >
Correction. xVM/Xen also allows unmodified Guest OSes to run like Windows in hardware assisted virtualization mode that uses the AMDV and IntelVT processor extensions. We have successfully run WinXP/Vista on xVM. > 2. It has been available under dual license - open source and commercial > 3. Finally the reason that got me interested - It probably is one > solution supporting widest array of host operating systems (including > OpenSolaris based platforms) > (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) > However Virtualbox is a beast apart! It is completely painless to install and use with intuitive GUI, high performance and stable, supports an array of Guest OSes. We just tried various stuff with Virtualbox running on SXDE host OS without any issues. In addition Virtualbox can also utilize the processor extensions alluded to above. BTW it uses Qt :) I am Hoping we will soon see Qt bundled in SXDE/Indiana. Regards, Moinak. > regards > Shivakumar > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
