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Re: [News] GPL-Licensed Virtualisation a Challenge to Proprietary VMWare

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Open source VirtualBox challenges VMware Workstation
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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).        
> `----
> 
> 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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