[nflug] Alternate to VMWare

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Jan 27 12:25:56 EST 2007


C. Hatton Humphrey wrote:
> I won't hijack Mark's thread but it is timely - I've been testing out
> a new tool that is similar to VMWare but is open source.  It's called
> VirtualBox.
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> I installed it and then installed XP in it (I'm running FC5 on the
> laptop since that's what we're teaching)... I have to say that I'm
> impressed.  Compared to all of my previous excursions with virtual
> machines, this thing flies.
>
> To the point that I'm putting off the attempt to get Outlook 2k3
> working via wine (need it for the Exchange server) and am just going
> to use the virtual machine.
>
> Hatton
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Also, I've had alot of freeze problems with vmware, not lately but in
the past and the vmware kernel modules always were a pain
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