Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Running VMware Server on Devil-Linux

[Frank W. <fra...@ct...>]

John Boden wrote:
>> How much more trouble is virtualbox, compared to VMware server or
>> VMware workstation running on Linux?  How do the two compare, in your
>> opinion?
>>     
>
> Whenever possible, I avoid commercial SW; however, IMHO,
> Virtualbox (VB) is not an alternative.
> VB has a similar initial appearance, but at least as of 1 year ago,
> it was extraordinarily painful to use.  The virtual disks had a crypto
> assignment
> which made copying them and moving from one VM to another virtually impossible.
> I recall cloning simply did not work and snapshots were not useful the
> way they are under VM.  I simply filed VB under "forget the details &
> never touch this again".  For the record, I was hosting under gentoo.
>
>   
Hi,

in that case, you should give it another go.... If I remember correctly, 
I started using it in January, and I remember that copying vm's was 
difficult at the time. Development is quite active however and I have 
since copied vm's to and fro, without a hitch.

I made an XP vm that I have running on at least 5 different hosts. It's 
even useable on an Atom-based netbook....

Regards,

Frank