Hi, Owen. VirtualBox works "out of the box" (wired or wireless) with NAT networking enabled. You can also set up a bridge between the host & the guest if you need a fixed IP address to your guest. Haven't found any peripherals yet that don't work.
Re: Marcus' observation that VMWare supports 64 bit guest OS's: true. But, VMWare is slower than dog poo on a Linux host when using shared folders to a Windows guest.. VirtualBox is fast. At the moment, I got a virtual Windows XP guest & a virtual Kubunto 8.04 guest cooking away on my Linux host, and I have not found anything that does not work on the guests. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > > > As in this is the best thing since... > > > > I've been testing it extensively, and find it to be hands-down a > > superior > > product to VMWare Workstation: > > > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community > > > > --Doug > > Hi Doug, thanks for the pointer. > > Generally virtualization runs into difficulties with the network .. > both wireless and wired, and with peripherals (printers etc). > > Any difficulties in that world? > > Actually, on of the more interesting virtualization stunts is Amazon > EC2 and similar "cloud" computing stunts. Just pour any OS into a > container and the sophisticated server back ends manage to run them > just fine. Way cool! > > -- Owen > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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