Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Open source VirtualBox challenges VMware Workstation
>
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>| I tested VirtualBox 1.5.2 on both Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and Ubuntu
>| 7.10 ?Gutsy Gibbon.? As with previous versions, installation was
>| straightforward. The only caveat was the need to manually configure bridged
>| networking support -- a process that involved creating a network bridge
>| between the VirtualBox TAP adapter driver and the local NIC driver on the
>| host. After this bridge was in place I could browse my local network from the
>| guest OS and access resources on the host OS. As with previous versions,
>| though, I did encounter the occasional IP address conflict message from both
>| the host (Vista) and guest (Windows XP).
> `----
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> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/17/51TC-innotek-virtualbox_1.html
>
>
Again, as with the database example, there is no doubt that foss
versions of such utilities will eliminate the non-foss ones in the end,
at least in all but very exceptional cases.
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