On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> Certain companies (e.g. VMlite) use VirtualBox as a base platform, yet > it conflicts over system resources. (no way to transparently install > and run VBox and VMlite side-by-side) > > After reading this paper about "WinPcap Pro": > http://www.riverbed.com/us/products/cascade/winpcap_pro.php > ...I came to realize, that something similar might be possible to > improve VirtualBox revenues. > > i.e. you could make a custom ver of VBox (VirtualBox embeddable), > which won't conflict with the main branch of VBox, and let ppl to > install both branches side-by-side. Since you own drivers, you could > make them share VT-x, network, USB, and other critical resources. > Then you could license this ver of VBox to third-party, such as VMlite > and possibly other companies, that want a strong foundation and custom > solution in the virtualization space. > > Please read the paper and consider this possibility. > I think that's a good idea. It would open up VirtualBox to the possibility of being applied in other situations where otherwise it might not go - at least in the short term. If there wasn't an official variant, I guess someone could go about producing a GUI-less headless version? --- Nick
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