VirtualBox
I stumbled upon this software a couple weeks back and finally got it installed and running at home on one of my Linux boxes. It seems to work really well. I was pleasantly surprised. I'm used to running VMWare Workstation at work and wasn't sure how a freebie program could compete but like I said, it works great. Here is a direct quote from the offical website listed above.
Like they say, it runs on Windows, Linux and now Macs. I only miss one feature that VMWare gives me, that's Shared Folders. Maybe I haven't found the options yet but that would limit my own usage slightly.
Let me know what ya'll think of it if you've used it or use it in the future.
Correction: I guess it helps if you read the manual first, cause I just found the section for shared folders that I thought it didn't have. My bad.
Edit: This software basically has all the features of VMWare Workstation. It also supports multiple Snapshots that I use all the time that Virtual PC from Microsoft does not.
I stumbled upon this software a couple weeks back and finally got it installed and running at home on one of my Linux boxes. It seems to work really well. I was pleasantly surprised. I'm used to running VMWare Workstation at work and wasn't sure how a freebie program could compete but like I said, it works great. Here is a direct quote from the offical website listed above.
innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "innotek" for more about our company.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.
Like they say, it runs on Windows, Linux and now Macs. I only miss one feature that VMWare gives me, that's Shared Folders. Maybe I haven't found the options yet but that would limit my own usage slightly.
Let me know what ya'll think of it if you've used it or use it in the future.
Correction: I guess it helps if you read the manual first, cause I just found the section for shared folders that I thought it didn't have. My bad.
Edit: This software basically has all the features of VMWare Workstation. It also supports multiple Snapshots that I use all the time that Virtual PC from Microsoft does not.
