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isn't quite as mature just yet

Story: VirtualBox - VM software goes Open SourceTotal Replies: 3
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hughesjr

Jan 15, 2007
8:19 AM EST 		Well ... this doesn't allow the install of x86_64, and it doesn't work as well as VMWare.

It is a very promising technology ... however, the Enterprise features are still closed source.

[url=http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Closed-source features]http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Closed-source features[/url]

(usb capabilities and rdp control, among other things)
DarrenR114

Jan 15, 2007
8:57 AM EST 		I wonder how closely related VirtualBox is to Bochs:

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
incinerator

Jan 15, 2007
9:51 AM EST 		According to http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678 Innotek were working together with Connectix when they developed virtualpc. Connectix got bought out my ms eventually but Innotek stayed in the business. They are said to have been marketing VirtualBox to government customers since 2004. While still lacking some of vmware's features, I wouldn't call the software immature.

They did some benchmark comparisons in the review referred to above, as well. It seems atm VirtualBox is only marginally slower than VMWare. That puts it miles ahead of existing Free Software full-scale virtualisation software like qemu or bochs. It's as close to be a drop-in replacement to vmware as it can get at the moment.
hughesjr

Jan 15, 2007
12:39 PM EST 		immature might not have been the best word :)

less fully featured might be better.

if it also did x86_64 I would probably build it and put it in CentOS Extras repository.

It is pretty close to VMware for performance and it does work fairly well on x86

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