I have been using VMware Server as my virtualization platform for the past several years. I got my first taste of virtualization as a method for testing and research while studying for my GCIH certification in 2005/2006.
I have recently been made aware of an alternative virtualization platform named VirtualBox.
I have been using VirtualBox on my home system for the past several weeks and am happy to announce that this platform performs very well and is open source and is very simple to install. I remember the headaches that I encountered while trying to get VMware Professional and later VMware Server to work with my Slackware desktop in 2006.
I used the apt repositories to install VirtualBox on my workstation.
inuk-x@shell$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox
[sudo] password for inuk-x:
inuk-x@shell$ which virtualbox
/usr/bin/virtualbox
Saturday, December 13, 2008
New virtualization platform
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Just so ya know, there are two versions of VirtualBox:
- Standard VirtualBox which is available for free from Sun, but is not open source.
- Virtual Box OSE (Open Source Edition) which is, obviously, open source.
I've been using VirtualBox OSE on my Ubuntu installation for about half a year, and I've been very impressed with it. The one thing that it doesn't do very well, that standard VB *does* do, is USB support.
@Greg,
You are correct, the version installed on Kubuntu desktop is VirtualBox OSE.
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