Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> 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:
>>     
> VMWare has the advantage of running 64 bit clients.  Also VMware can 
> replay code e.g. trace and replay debugging...
>   
Agreed.  And VMWare Workstation does background snapshots, and 
screenshots, movies, etc.

My experience testing VirtualBox was quite different.  Installed on a 
Dell D820 Core 2 Duo running 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy), VirtualBox 
didn't do very well running a stripped-down version of Windows XP...the 
window positioning, input capture (mouse, keyboard), and full screen 
transitions were buggy.  I abandoned VirtualBox for a 64-bit version of 
VMWare Workstation for Linux version 6.0.5 build-109488 which works 
smoothly.

I like the VirtualBox concept though, particularly it's multi-platform 
nature...it would be *very* nice to have a hypervisor for Solaris x86.  
At some point if I ever have the time, I'll test the Solaris version.

-Nick


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