VirtualBox

I know Sun’s VirtualBox has been out for awhile now.  However, when it came out, I already have VMware running and had plenty of VMs operational.  Recently, I upgraded to a new workstation and switched OSes.  Instead of going with VMware, I tried VirtualBox.

To be frank, I love it.

Other than a few quirks, it works well — and it’s quite fast.   I installed it at first to install the latest build of OpenSolaris.  Everything went flawlessly.   I then used it to build a Windows 2K VM that I use for some testing.  That went flawlessly.

I’ve only scraped the surface of VirtualBox, but some of the commandline tools are very handy.  I’ll post some more tips and tricks as I find them.

VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, OpenSolaris, and OSX hosts and supports a nice array of guests.

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This entry was written by theunixguy, posted on April 7, 2009 at 5:35 am, and filed under Tips and Tricks and tagged , .

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