jmbattle Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Hello folks,Has anyone had a chance to try this new open source virtual machine software - http://www.virtualbox.org ?I wonder how it compares in terms of speed with VMware, VirtualPC and Bochs.Cheers,Jamesx
theSLug Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 try asap, potentially a great free software. tnx jm for post this
theSLug Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 works well whit XP, and run the vista installation.a GREAT free VM imho!theSLug
Tarun Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 I believe this should have been posted in the Tech News section. Nice find, regardless.
CoffeeFiend Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 More virtualization solutions (more choice) is always a good thing. But there's already tons of very good free offerings: VMWare Server, VMWare Player, MS Virtual Server 2005 R2, MS Virtual PC (not counting QEmu, KVM, Xen, Bochs and all that), and a bunch of cheap ones like Parallels.The interesting part isn't so much that it's free (as in 0$) as there's already more than enough free solutions, but it's open source.Either ways I'm sticking to VMWare Server (and the VMWare Converter for MS' .VHD files)
DigeratiPrime Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Looks nice BTW what VM's right now take advantage of AMD Virtualization Technology a.k.a AMD-V or Pacifica?[edit] nvm I think I found the answerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualizatio...re_utilizing_VT
Camarade_Tux Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Has anyone had a chance to see how well it performed ?
Zxian Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 There's a bug with the link on the frontpage - sends you to wwwl.virtualbox.org.
Martin L Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 There's a bug with the link on the frontpage - sends you to wwwl.virtualbox.org.fixed that thanks
DigeratiPrime Posted January 17, 2007 Posted January 17, 2007 Has anyone had a chance to see how well it performed ?One thing I like is it is only a 10.8MB MSI Installer (extracted/installed its about 21.3MB) so its much leaner than VMWare Workstation v5.5 (90MB MSI), which includes some large iso's.I just tested it on my new X2 3800 (AM2) with XP Pro SP2 and the performance was excellent, definetly better than VMWare with my last cpu (Venice 3000). However I have not tested VMWare yet with my new processor so the results may be better or same. [edit] if you install the "Guest Additions" (think VMware tools) the performance is almost native! Still gotta test vmware with new cpu to compare, but this is awesome Some observations: cannot drag and drop files between host and guest with the additions installed.
Jeremy Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 I just tried it out. It outperforms VMware and the snapshots are about the same size as VMware snapshots. They are stored in:C:\Documents and Settings\Username\.VirtualBox\Machines\Virtual Machine Name\Once I am done a current project that I use VMware for, I will be switching over.
ripken204 Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 how much longer does it take to install than vmware? lol
DigeratiPrime Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 I am building a new "nLited" XP with the new RyanVM update pack, I will record the time it take to install it for both VirtualBox and VMware, either tonight or tommorow. PS Thanks Jeremy I was wondering where the snapshots were being stored, did not bother to investigate
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