VMWare alternative

Jorge Delacruz alterthegrid at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 5 05:42:53 MST 2007


They seem to have duplicated much of the functionality
of VMware server!  Pretty awesome app!

JD


--- Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, I've been experimenting with an application
> called VirtualBox by
> Innotek.  (free download, open source edition
> available, etc etc)
> I've been using it at work on my CentOS 5 laptop in
> order to run WinXP
> for some of the in-house windows apps we are
> required to use on a
> daily basis for change management, etc.  One thing
> that I really like
> about it is something called "seamless mode" which
> integrates the
> windows desktop into your linux desktop pretty
> slick-like.  I have the
> Windows taskbar at the top, my KDE bar at the bottom
> and outlook 2K7
> open next to Firefox on Linux.  For me, it runs at
> what appears to be
> native speed....
> 
> Anyway, I wanted to throw that little tidbit of
> information out to the
> group... and if you knew about it, consider it a
> reminder it still
> exists lol
> 
> www.virtualbox.org is the website.
> 
> --Dan
> 
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> it."
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