hi all ! Today downloaded VirtualBox v.1.3.2. I really liked that OSS product, I found today (due to osnews.com) !
I liked the product very much, since it's the first major OSS virtualization product for Linux and a very good cross-platform package. It's much-much better than what was available before that in the OSS world (solutions such as Qemu and Bochs). This solution, however, has a real chance to compete with both MS Virtual PC/Virtual Server and VMware. And it's my best wish to help build an excellent emulation/virtualization suite. Unfortunately, I'm not a developer, but have much experience with different emulators, and therefore I see myself in the right position to be useful as a beta-tester. I have decided to offer my help with BETA-testing and sent my ICA. I haven't found BugZilla on your website as of yet, so I would be thankful, if you drop me a link please. How do I fill feature-requests ? The biggest one is to fully support Win9x (Windows 95/98/98SE/Me) as a guest OS, including guest VM integration additions. Those OSes are still widely used, for software testing purposes of backward-compatibility, and it's still needed by legacy software that cannot be run on newer OSes and isn't updated anymore. I understand that supporting those as Host OSes might be too difficult, but as guest OSes it should be easier. I think, that supporting Win9x as host OS is not really needed anyways, since Win9x cannot fully utilize powerful hardware (such as: multi-core CPUs, and big hard disks). In addition, I want to inform you, that I already have good working relationships with one team in Germany, namely the SUSE team. (which might lead to better integration between VirtualBox and SUSE eventually) Bye -Alexey Eremenko. 6.2.2007. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
