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        <title><![CDATA[Make it work big]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-344384-3542152]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[VBox could install on an empty drive.The operating systems would then be selected from a page at boot up.One or more operating systems could be selected.Copy/paste between the operating systems and you're in.The power of the computer goes to the active OS.Instant select and instant on,a boot to a snapshot.Files in the RAM.One OS for audio another for video is an example.It all works out of the package,networking shared folders and so on.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BALTHOR]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:07:46 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Virtual really runs slow]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[VBox is a free download,for now.Somebody is sneaking contribute in there.I see virtual more as a novelty.I use it to look at ISO's and vhd's.It's much fun to install an OS and see it work.I will make a vhd and save it to a DVD.You don't need to make your virtual hard drive all that big either.There's some memory and CPU stuff to adjust and that's interesting.Boot to USB would be great.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[BALTHOR]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:53:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re: Stuck with Vmware]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I use a somewhat older version of VMware server at the moment.  I will give virtualbox a try.  Thanks for the response.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[eric.van.rheenen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 00:15:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using VirtualBox Headless to serve Windows XP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At one  on my clients, I installed VirtualBox on Windows SBS 2003 and loaded it up with windows xp virtual machines.Users with  iPad have Mocha Remote Desktop (RDP) on their tablets and through the corporate WIFI they access the  ERP win32 client, SysgestockERP  with no effort as if they were on a PC.I use phpvirtualbox for web administration of the virtual machines.They love this solution.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wranilus@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 10:09:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You might be stuck with VMware Workstation]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-344384-3450793]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[(or, are you doing that with VMware Server?)Looking at Virtualbox Community Edition; .vmdk, .vdi, .vhd, .hdd (parallels) though on the *nix side, you might be able to tell it to open the device partition directly (/dev/sda1) since devices are represented as files.Hm.. ok, so Virtualbox calls it &quot;Raw Hard Disk Access&quot;. The link has lots of warnings about using it and seems to read like it's Virtualbox on a Windows host OS but I can't see why the given steps wouldn't work under a *nix host OS:http://www.sysprobs.com/access-physical-disk-virtualbox-desktop-virtualization-software]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 09:28:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[lots of info out there]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just did a quick search and found lots of writeups. Personally, I'm mostly use vboxheadless:vboxheadless -s [machinename]but vboxmanage seems to be the primary command you want to read up on.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 09:18:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Commercial use is fine]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The community edition is GPL licensed, which means you can use it for whatever you like, including commercial activity. The only restriction is that if you modify the VirtualBox code itself and distribute your changes, then you have to make sure you comply with the license (distribute your own changes under the GPL as well).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bjarni Runar]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 05:36:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[VirtualBox to real partition]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have a dual booted notebook with windows and openSuSE running.  I use VMware, which is using my windows partition so that i can run windows applications when using the Linux OS. I don't have to be affraid to have synchronisation problems when i reboot and start using windows. I also don't lose diskspace on my Linux partiton for the virtual disk.Is there a way to do this with VirtualBox aswell.  Thus running on the Linux host and using the windows partition as the guest OS ??  And naturally also the other way around.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[eric.van.rheenen@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 00:33:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[USB PassThrough - How Robust]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I remember a few years ago with VM Server 2 that I had some problems with Usb.  How would you rate the robustness of Usb passthrough on Virtual Box, in a general sense?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Happ]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:49:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'll have to look into it further.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lastchip]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 13:55:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[yes.. fully cli manageable]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I regularily use virtuaboxheadless to setup up VMs before I start up a graphic desktop but there is full command line support from what I can tell. Creating VMs, modifying config, booting, deleting.. it's all there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 13:10:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My understanding...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is they're going to stop supporting VMWare Server, if they haven't already.  I did run in to several small businesses where Server makes more sense.  I've deployed, and I use esx.  However, it doesn't support softraid, and getting the most out of it means thinking about external storage.  This means more $ for the customer.  It's also picky about hardware. This is not too much of an issue now as I wouldn't buy a server to run it unless it's sure to work; however, it does mean you can't NECESSARILY use just any hardware the customer might want to use.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tbmay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 10:57:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[these where my two issues..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The https web interface didn't work well. When able to connect by port 8333, it'd sort of work or crash out completely. Cleartext port 8222 was fine for local use but this meant living with the second issue:Restarting the VMware services meant a hang of ten minutes or more before it would fail out of trying to halt the management process. Restarting my computer for an hour of gaming or any other reason meant suffering that same hang and error out unless I took the system down hard with the power button (not advisable).If VMware is going to provide there own packaged bundle with installer script, they need to make it actually work and install the software clean. None of this installed-but-broken that I saw no end to after every Debian and Ubuntu related howto I could find including the third party installer patch methods.Now on Debian 6, something seems broken between SSH dynamic port forwarding and GUI apps under KDE. I can setup the dynamic port and drag pages in by curl proxied through it so the ssh connection is in place. I can't for the life of me get any GUI apps to properly use it though. Hard set firefox proxy or foxyproxy pointed at the established dynamic port simply gave me an invinate loop of &quot;doing something&quot;.. pause.. &quot;doing something&quot;.. Unfortunately, this issue actually affects much more than just providing an adhoc secure connection to VMware as I use dynamic port proxy for several work and personally related tasks. (I'd love to figure out why it's not working.. even if I can't fix it in the end).Overall, VMware is fantastic and deserves to be the market leader in terms of actually running the VMs. If one is only concerned with a host OS specifically supported then give it a go. Start after delay with host OS bootup; good. Delay host shutdown while shutting down guests gracefully; good. The method used in the screen display layer when showing windowed VM screens.. even that's nicer than competitive products.Not running one of the VMware blessed host OS, I'm just not going to hack it apart to force it to work on my system when there is a competitive alternative delivered within the native repositories (heck, even a Deb6 third party repository would be acceptable such as Webmin and Mondo Rescue.)ESX is another matter entirely though since it doesn't rely on a specific host OS. If it'll give my VM's direct access to the hardware (my Win7 sees an Nvidia GPU not a VMware GPU and similar) then it's even tempting to try and run Win7 and Deb6 concourently instead of in dual-boot. I suspect that would affect gaming on the Windows side still though.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 09:58:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It works fine on Debian.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You just gotta do a bit more than RHEL.  I'm running it on several Lenny servers just fine.  I'll see if I can get you some procedures.On thing you want to get used to though....tunnel through ssh to use the web interface....on 8222....and copy your links for your console.Once you get used to those two things, you'll not miss a beat.But yes....I agree.  ESX is the standard, and the one to use for serious virtualization.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tbmay]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 07:16:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can anyone tell me please?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've used VirtualBox, but only on a desktop machine (Debian), which of course has a &quot;normal&quot; desktop in the form of a GUI.Can VirtualBox be used on a server which is text based only and if so, how does the interface appear? Is it all done via the command line, or is it browser based, similar to Webmin or phpmyadmin?Any advice would be appreciated.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lastchip]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 05:05:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Beauty...No Legalities]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There are no legalities of running ESXI on production servers; I ran 70% (about 24 ESXI servers ) of my enterprise off the free version. If you read the faqs page they basically encourage it -&gt; http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/faq.htmlIf you use the free version then you don't get the ability to use vmotion, high avail, etc.....but most organizations don't need this functionality(it would be nice but not a requirement to running a successful infrastructure using ESXI)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jstevensfit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:34:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No host needed....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ESXI is not a hypervisor that sits on top of another OS. Think of ESXI as a standalone OS that you install just as you would a regular version of Linux or windows. As robo_dev mentioned it's essentially running a proprietary version of Linux.The beauty here is that you can run solaris, windows and Linux virtual machines, etc without the overhead of another OS because it is the OS. That plus the ease of use is worth it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jstevensfit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:18:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have used Virtual Box for a few years on my home system.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I prefer Virtual Box over VMWare and Moka5. It is simple to set up a guest OS. I use it mainly to test new Linux/GNU distros and to practice installing a different OS from my normal Ubuntu. The best part is you don't have set up  partitions the traditional way. When you get rid of a guest OS and all its files, you do not have repartition.I thank Mr. Wallen for showing how to actually set up a server to allow usage of a virtual machine. While I always download a fresh install from Oracle, there is a virtual box open source edition. It however, is usually a few versions behind the original version. VBox also lets you know when a new version is released. The download page at www.virtualbox.org has a version for nearly every OS in use. The Linux selection covers every major distro so you should not have to rely on your repositories.I find Virtual Box helpful and just plain fun. And I am not a trained IT pro. Just a heavy duty tinkerer.Paul]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pfyearwood]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 19:08:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[VMware v's Virtualbox]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In stopped using vmware when it got bloated and slow....Virtual box is much slimmer code and very fast, may miss a few enhancments but I haven't missed anything I needed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tim.stephens@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is really a stripped-down Linux kernel under the covers, though.  ESXi is awesome; I run it at home and am in the process of doing server consolidation.  And it's free.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[robo_dev]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 11:28:52 -0700</pubDate>
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