Which virtualization software should I choose

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 11:31:10 CDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:22 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/11 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:58 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> VirtualBox does okay for Windows and Linux, barely for FreeBSD with
>>> lots of caveats and not really for anything else. Notably, OpenBSD
>>> doesn't work and the VirtualBox developers admit it but consider the
>>> bug beneath their attention. It's really not a very well-written
>>> virtualisation app.
>
>> Virtualbox works great for OpenSolaris as well.
>
>
> *cough* Yes, I expect it would :-)
>
> (explanation: Sun owns VirtualBox, you can be very sure their own OS
> runs like a charm!)

I'm well aware...though, interestingly, sound is broken out of the box
and requires compiling your own oss driver :-/

-- 
-Austin



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