On Feb 16, 2008 5:17 PM, jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You didn't real the whole manual then. Virtualbox supports the same thing via tun/tap devices. I do admit that it is not as easy to set up as with vmware though... > VB keeps time, VMware does not. VMware loses about 10min/hour without and > gains about 10min/hour with the VMware-tools installed. It depends on what you are running in the guest... > VB keeps the CPU at FULL-SPEED, so the host stays pegged at FULL. No, this is definitely not true. Did you also install the virtualbox tools in the guest? > 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. sata has nothing to do with anything here in your statement, because your SATA controller is not used -- the virtualized vmware hardware is which is usually pata (or scsi) depending on what guest you choose in the options... > The date is wrong by 8 hours. ntp will fix and hold. TZ is WST ???? Not wrong in my install, but I have tools installed in guest... > 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) Again, it depends on your guest OS. Read up on it options in the linux kernel to fix such drift, like the pit option (iirc).. -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
