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Open Source Virtualization

This weekend I installed and tested an open source desktop virtualization software, VirtualBox. In fact, according to its own website, it is “the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.”

VirtualBox is now owned by Sun, which probably has the largest arsenal of open source software anywhere.

In my testing, I installed the latest Ubuntu, 8.04 Hardy Heron, which runs beautifully in VirtualBox on my MacBook.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 19th, 2008 at 9:07 am and is filed under GNU/Linux, Mac, Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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2 Responses to “Open Source Virtualization”

  1. John Voghel Says:
    May 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    Sun xVM VirtualBox is great, it work perfectly. Installed it on Win XP SP2 and installed Ubuntu 8.04 in a VM. The only problem is one cannot get greater resolution than 800×600. That’s a huge handicap.

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    September 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

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