Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2723 mails)

["George Stoianov" <gstoyanoff@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/7/07, Alexey Eremenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi susers!
>
> At last ! The virtualization revolution in Linux happens !
>
> Until now, Linux had no quality virtualization available. At least no
> OSS solution existed, that is also user-friendly.
>
> Yesterday the world changed with the introduction of Innotek's
> VirtualBox (dual-licensed under GPL and proprietary license).
>
> This solution feels like professional VirtualPC/VMware Workstation:
> allows full integration of guest OSes (mouse pointer, etc...), works
> with Linux and Windows 2000/XP guests and hosts, and has a nice
> Qt3-based GUI. And it's Free !
> Unfortunately AMD64 arch and Win9x OS are not supported at all. Not
> host and not guest.
> This solution is *much* more stable than Qemu/Xen/Bochs whatever the
> OSS world has today. (through it's still less stable than MS Virtual
> PC 2004)
> It is also *very* fast: Windows 2000 Guest installed & run faster than
> under VMware/VirtualPC.
>
> So please try it, if you like VMware and emulators in general.
> I seriously want this solution to be included in the main repository
> for openSUSE 10.3.
> Such high-quality OSS software, developed by a commercial company is a
> real rarity and a big asset for our community.
>
> First commercial/OSS x86 emulator for Linux - VirtualBox 1.3.2 !!!
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
> http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualbox_fedora_centos_opensuse
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
>
> benchmark VirtualBox vs Qemu+KQemu vs VMware
> http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=56
>
> What do you think of it?
>
> -Alexey Eremenko. 7.2.2007.
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This does look really interesting. I am using VMware right now and I
am very happy with it, but I am going to give this a try in the near
future.

Thanks.

>
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