I have played with vbox, quite impressed. Knoppix KDE would not come up in Qemu, runs in Vbox. Dynebolic runs very nicely as well--these without the guest additions since I can only use one CD-image so cannot install them. Win98 runs poorly because Vbox does not present known installable hardware (and has no additions for it), runs better in Qemu (which does) but too slow to be useful in either.
Vbox will either hang up the system or go into an arror-debug mode trying to run haiku/beOS or reactOS (attempt at a GPL windows knockoff--why not just use Wine?). These run quite well in Qemu. One thing about all of these is one must give them a nice slug of memory. Fine for testing the latest distro-image, toying with virtualization and networking options, etc. Useful? Unless one has gigabytes of RAM, I guess not. There is one distro around which runs in 16meg!! Better in 32meg. Well, I can afford to dedicate this full time if I had the application for a full time VM, i.e. protected web server or proxy. It is based on Slackware (with its foibles). Runs nicely in Qemu. Will not boot up in Vbox. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
