I downloaded a demo, can play with it for two weeks. Its drivers will compile against linux kernel 2.6.18, NOT against 2.6.20. Vbox's did just fine on both but Parallels has network drivers and this stuff has changed radically for newer kernels.
UI looks very similar to ours. Very similar! Some differences: 1. They use a "lightweight hypervisor". Xen uses a heavier one but requirers specially built guest kernels. 2. Their networking probably works better than vbox (have not tried it yet, however. Installing Win98 takes time. They have no vditool-like utilitiy. 3. They say their "guest-additions" work in all Windows but not in Linux yet !! 4. They are NOT opensource and their personal-evaluation license is time limited to two weeks. Maybe they will figure out that the two-tiered business model pursued by Sun, Innotek and others makes sense. Few individual tinkerers will shell out $50 when they can play around for free with packages offering more tools and capabilities. An enterprize will want the support, slicker packages and utitilies, et al., but will strictly evaluate which one. Even holy vmware has a freebie. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
