Hi the other week someone here was enthusistic about VirtualBox. Would they wax lyrical about their choice please:
I compare to VMware and find: The networking is a PIA. No sane (IMHO) person would virtualize a desktop. The VMs are servers, so bridged network is needed not the NAT. VB keeps time, VMware does not. VMware loses about 10min/hour without and gains about 10min/hour with the VMware-tools installed. VB keeps the CPU at FULL-SPEED, so the host stays pegged at FULL. For me (amd2, sata) CentOS won't install/run under VMware, although I downloaded a guest and it works fine. Just wrong size disk ! Works fine under VB, but CPU freq won't scale. The date is wrong by 8 hours. ntp will fix and hold. TZ is WST ???? VMware drift is outside the ntp limit, so ntp won't fix and hold date (I think the drift limit is 1 sec in 2000) So, I'm very interested in VB feedback. Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
