We don’t need no stink’n VMWare..
Monday, January 15th, 2007
VMWare has been around for a long while, and is a fantastic product. However, if you want to be a law bidding internet go’re, its not in the price range of someone like me. Low and behold, VirtualBox has become open source and our savior! There are a few VM applications out there such as qemu, but they aren’t as user friendly as VMWare. VirtualBox its a good substitute and its FREE. Also its cross-platformed, so far it seems pretty smooth. The install was a breeze, they had an Ubuntu package for the recent releases. I didn’t however see any RPM’s, which doesn’t bother me to much, not a fan.
To test it I decided to give Fedora Core 6 a whirl as well as the new Ubuntu test. The mouse control was quick and responsive, video looks good. I’ll put an update once I get a few installed and working. Maybe even though Winblows on there.
The only problem I ran into is that I have to run it as root, which I don’t like so much, but I’m sure I’m just do’n something wrong.
