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VirtualBox GPL'd
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:15 pm
by tom_mc
This looks like a very sweet program for virtualization
http://www.virtualbox.org/
cya soon
tom_mc
Re: VirtualBox GPL'd
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:25 pm
by allix
It does look interesting, i was in #vb(not the programming language
) on freenode and the developers seem really keen to answer anyones questions.
The application borrows alot of architecture(the way it works , not hardware , ie x86, arm,sparc etc) from qemu, but its written in c++ as they have a c++ api that they like to maintain opposed to qemu in C.
The x86_64 port is almost done in svn , but a less someone steps up to port any version too FreeBSD, there not going to do it. There are going to add vmware 3 & 4 image support but no plans for qcow1 or 2 , a less of course someone does it outside the main core team.
It would be interesting to see what the performance of this application is like, now that new intel and amd chips can do hardware virtualisation with xen and other apps?, dual boot in a few years to come will be history.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:43 pm
by spotslayer
Anyone tried this yet? I have been using VMware player. Ok for pre built machines. I used the time bomb trial to build a couple of my own. I would like to know how this works.
David
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:13 am
by dann
spotslayer wrote:Anyone tried this yet? I have been using VMware player. Ok for pre built machines. I used the time bomb trial to build a couple of my own. I would like to know how this works.
David
What do you mean by pre-built machines? Are you talking about using vmware player to run pre-built images? If so, it's very easy to create your own image to run under vmware player.
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:00 am
by spotslayer
dann wrote:spotslayer wrote:Anyone tried this yet? I have been using VMware player. Ok for pre built machines. I used the time bomb trial to build a couple of my own. I would like to know how this works.
David
What do you mean by pre-built machines? Are you talking about using vmware player to run pre-built images? If so, it's very easy to create your own image to run under vmware player.
I have created machines using the time bomb (30 day trial) version of Virtual Machine. That is very easy. Once built these can be used with VM player. I don't know how to build a machine with the player. I would sure like to.
David
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:34 pm
by snarkout
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/rBuilder:VMw ... _Appliance
I haven't messed with this at all since I'm just not that interested in virtual machines right now, but my understanding is that you can use rpath'rbuilder to make images viewable by vmware.
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:18 pm
by adam
check out
http://www.easyvmx.com/easyvmx.shtml for creating vmware images
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:32 pm
by greggh
spotslayer wrote:Anyone tried this yet? I have been using VMware player. Ok for pre built machines. I used the time bomb trial to build a couple of my own. I would like to know how this works.
David
Dave Yates talks about Virtualbox on his podcast
http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog and said he likes it better than vmware player.
Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:11 pm
by spotslayer
greggh wrote:spotslayer wrote:Anyone tried this yet? I have been using VMware player. Ok for pre built machines. I used the time bomb trial to build a couple of my own. I would like to know how this works.
David
Dave Yates talks about Virtualbox on his podcast
http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog and said he likes it better than vmware player.
I have that episode downloaded but have not had the time to listen yet. I will have to make a better effort.