[boooggy]

too bad they didnt add drag and drop support.....

[DigeratiPrime]

boooggy, on Dec 31 2007, 04:29 PM, said:

too bad they didnt add drag and drop support.....

I really want that feature as well, although using network shares works good.

[S.SubZero]

I like Virtualbox. The guest support is very broad, letting me tinker with all kinds of goofy and vintage operating systems.

I currently have OS/2, Solaris 10, Ubuntu, Win2K, OpenStep, Rhapsody DR2, and BeOS as guests. Wacky!

[Camarade_Tux]

Yes, iirc they use qemu's engine which supports really many platforms : http://fabrice.bella...emu/status.html
But unlike qemu virtualbox's ui is much better.

[Glenn9999]

I tried VirtualBox, but had a couple of big problems:
1) It wouldn't work with the first boot disk I fed it to load the OS - it locked up.
2) It seems to not handle direct hardware accesses too well, maybe it shouldn't being a VM, but I had problems on a couple of things I fired up (Norton Disk Doctor being one of them) when I did get a boot disk to work.

My guess is they probably still have some stability and other issues to work out.

[Innocent Devil]

Feb-19:
new version released : 1.5.6 x86|x86-64

btw Sun Microsystems Acquires innotek

what will be its future ???

[DigeratiPrime]

TY for the news it's a maintenance release with really no new features; hopefully Sun will progress its development :-)

[Camarade_Tux]

DigeratiPrime, on Feb 24 2008, 06:46 PM, said:

TY for the news it's a maintenance release with really no new features; hopefully Sun will progress its development :-)

I guess it's more for some OSes.

Quote

VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests

[Legolash2o]

Never tried VirtualBox before, gonna give it a try.

EDIT: Doesn't work with Vista x64 guest

This post has been edited by LegoLiam™: 24 February 2008 - 04:45 PM

[S.SubZero]

LegoLiam™, on Feb 24 2008, 12:50 PM, said:

Never tried VirtualBox before, gonna give it a try.

EDIT: Doesn't work with Vista x64 guest

Virtualbox doesn't support 64-bit guests. From what I have seen from VMWare and Hyper-V, they run 64-bit guests but neither of these ran XP64 very well for me. Not enough that I'd really want to use it.

I installed Vista 32-bit in Virtualbox and it runs surprisingly well in both XP64 host and OS X host.

DigeratiPrime, on Feb 24 2008, 09:46 AM, said:

TY for the news it's a maintenance release with really no new features; hopefully Sun will progress its development :-)

Actually it has a new switch for PIIX3/PIIX4 virtual disk controllers (for better compatibility with vmdk images with OSs on them) and offers some new virtual network cards for better support with OSs like Vista and OpenSolaris which don't come with a PCNet driver.

This post has been edited by S.SubZero: 24 February 2008 - 06:51 PM

[Innocent Devil]

cant test vista sp1.
guest additions nolonger works (in 1.5.4)
running on vgasave driver

[Cee-Kay]

VirtualBox 1.6 released!

The first major release since being acquired by Sun Microsystems is now available. Version 1.6 has new Mac and Solaris host platform support, new high performance virtual devices, improved scalability and Web Services.


>> Changelog
>> Download

[Camarade_Tux]

Thanks a lot. I've been waiting for PAE support for a long time (freebsd7 uses pae by default ).

[DigeratiPrime]

nice update thanks for the news

[codeblue]

Does it support Drag and Drop from host yet?

[Maleko]

i personally prefer Virtual PC, a lot more straight forward and quicker

[Innocent Devil]

VPC doesnt offer flexibilty on hadware configuration

i love BIOS free config of virtualbox

[CoffeeFiend]

I despise VPC. Yuck!

But, VMWare might be taking a bad turn. I tried VMWare Server 2 (beta 2), and seemingly they expect us to use a crappy web interface (VPC-style) for everything
Or, you can buy some VI client licenses to manage it perhaps ($$$) -- then one might as well just buy ESXi 3.5 instead. Looks like I'll be staying with 1.0.6!

Oh, and BTW, for those who are into PowerShell too (and VMWare), check out the VI Toolkit, it's great!

[S.SubZero]

Maleko, on Jun 9 2008, 07:22 AM, said:

i personally prefer Virtual PC, a lot more straight forward and quicker

I've never seen VPC do anything remotely "quick".

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Virtualbox updated to 1.6.2 - they fixed some stuff and got new icons that are actually nice looking.

[determin2excel]

Virtual box is definitely the best. Virtual PC 2007 could not install openSUSE 11. In Virtual Box it runs great. The only flaw I have found so far is that the "virtual" video card does not accept 24bit but that's minor because the view is fine.