If I were VMWare, I'd be worried.  Now there's xVM Server.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/1358231

The Sun products might not currently be be a mature as VMWare, but it looks
like Sun has put some horsepower behind their development.

--Doug

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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Nick Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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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