From: Fernando Cassia [mailto:fcas...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:13 AM To: Geoff Nordli; VirtualBox end user list Subject: Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: Has anyone heard any news today on how the acquisition is going to affect vbox? Oracle VM is XEN based. Suns xVM is XEN based. Oracle bought Virtual Iron which is also XEN based. Wonder where vbox fits into that picture. Geoff Geoff: My $0.02: probably not affected at all. Virtualbox is a DESKTOP virtualization product. All the Xen derivatives are enterprise-class virtualization products, more geared towards server use and command line management. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-xen-server-vps-monitoring-commands.html Virtualbox on the other hand shares the same user base as vmware workstation, Virtual PC, or Parallels, for users that rarely need to run more than one or two VMs at once. FC Hi Fernando. Sure, vbox is a type 2 hypervisor. Looking at Oracle though, what would they want with a desktop virtualization product. Unless they are thinking VDI, which vbox seems to be well suited. Trust me, I would love for what you say to be true. It has been a major concern for me, since we are in the process of developing a product based on vbox. Geoff _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
