On 06/19/2011 06:31 AM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
On 06/19/2011 01:08 AM, Jason Bronner wrote:
alex, instead of giving Virtual Box root or even sudo
access might it not be more secure to use the VMWare
Player only app. since it doesnt seem to have the
problems associated with hardware recog. and lock
users into a specific hardware config / shares /
security template? i've never actually used virtual
box for anything as i've had generally good luck with
VMware in the past in addition to the numerous VMWare
apps for creating blank layouts, cloning, and
whatnot. I like using them for test-platform
appliances between compiles to ensure our updates
actually update and dont break the accounting
systems. (Player's free, and there's EL binaries
available.)
Hi, Thanks for the info, I'm going to try out VMWare Player now and
see how that goes. I used to like VMFusion for the Mac, so I'm
thinking I'll like it. I never have liked running much of anything
under root unless I absolutely have to. There are also a couple of
intersting other comments about USB access being fine with a Solaris
install and it working without root in previous versions of
Virtualbox. It seems to me I didn't have that problem with F13 or F14
either.
Thanks all,
Alex
