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I cannot say enough good things about Hyper-V for server room situations. I wish that it was more friendly for testing/development uses. I've been using Virtual PC for that for a while, because my personal needs are so slight. But for anyone doing heavy work, I tell them to use VMWare Workstation, and that's what we use at the office. I've been meaning to try VirtualBox to replace Virtual PC (and maybe VMWare Workstation as well), but the user manual is a real turn off. Makes it look like a miserable product. Plus, every Sun product I've touched has been very user un-friendly, from the Solaris install process to anything Java related...
J.Ja
J.Ja
I don't think you will be disappointed. I've been using it for a couple of years now. Both on Linux and Windows hosts. Both hosts running Windows and Linux guests. I have a virtual Win7 RC2 running on my workstation at work and also host a Win NT 4 server on the same workstation (not at the same time of course 
). The server I bring up only when needed (it was built from a snapshot from a dying server).
VB is easier to set up on a Windows host using a bridge network interface so the guest can be another network device. On Linux it's a bit more work to get the bridge interface working, but not too difficult.
All in all VB is my choice for virtual machines.
Edit> failed to mention the recent version 3.0.2 (?) now supports both OpenGL and Direct3D which wasn't mentioned in the article. And it does support Windows 7
). The server I bring up only when needed (it was built from a snapshot from a dying server).VB is easier to set up on a Windows host using a bridge network interface so the guest can be another network device. On Linux it's a bit more work to get the bridge interface working, but not too difficult.
All in all VB is my choice for virtual machines.
Edit> failed to mention the recent version 3.0.2 (?) now supports both OpenGL and Direct3D which wasn't mentioned in the article. And it does support Windows 7
I am using VirtualBox for application development. I needed something low cost and easy to use. There is talk in the systems department of licensing VMware but I needed something now not later.
I have no problems and it does what I need it to do.
I have no problems and it does what I need it to do.
The problem I have had is changing resolution to anything greater than 800x600 and 8bit in linux even after adding guest additions
A great product, now owned by Sun, keeps getting better. My arguments are, however, that one would want a VM to present "real" hardware (a dream--even that on the host!!) rather than need those guest additions. Qemu, fully opensource, presents common, recognized hardware to the guest OS.
One point. Windows 98 runs abysmally on Vbox, slightly better on Qemu. There are no guest additions for it and Win98 is neither officially supported nor recommended for vbox.
One point. Windows 98 runs abysmally on Vbox, slightly better on Qemu. There are no guest additions for it and Win98 is neither officially supported nor recommended for vbox.
I love it. I was running Microsoft VM and it was giving me errors on a simple Linux distro. I downloaded Virtual Box and I was ready to roll in a matter of minutes.
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I hope Oracle decides to continue this product.
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I hope Oracle decides to continue this product.
To me, VirtualBox seems ok, however, I've not been able to make two virtual machines see or ping each other successfully.
There is a co-worker who is also having the same issue with VirtualBox. In Virtual PC and VMWare there is no such issue connecting any number of virtual images.
There is a co-worker who is also having the same issue with VirtualBox. In Virtual PC and VMWare there is no such issue connecting any number of virtual images.
Under the network section change the adapter type to "Internal Network". Or just add a second adapter to each guest that needs to communicate with each other with that setting. It should work without a problem.
The last version I tried restricted access to the local disk(s) only through a virtual network driver. It did not allow local drives to appear local to the box. This made it near useless for DOS, and at least awkward for other OSs.
I tried loading Server 2008 using DVD and cant get it to recognise it and every other System boots ok. It works fine on Server 2003.
Anyone else with this problem.
or is Virtual Machine better.?
Anyone else with this problem.
or is Virtual Machine better.?
Jack, it is VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition) that doesn't have USB. The version from http://www.virtualbox.com does. It's a bit clunky to set up, but it does work.
I currently have our computer room (OpenBSD 3.9, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Solaris 10, and CentOS) virtualized on my desktop to act as a testbed.
I currently have our computer room (OpenBSD 3.9, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Solaris 10, and CentOS) virtualized on my desktop to act as a testbed.
Hi can you get Server 2008 to run on it?
Installed on Windows XP and Server 2003 works ok along with a lot of Linux programs and Windows XP etc. Just cant get server 2008 to boot.
Installed on Windows XP and Server 2003 works ok along with a lot of Linux programs and Windows XP etc. Just cant get server 2008 to boot.
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