[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[Tim Billingsley]

I use VBox non-OSE and it works very well and is very stable.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:57:25AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <davidf4 at mindspring.com> flavor, containing:
> There's always Sun VirtualBox.  The Open Source Edition is somewhat
> crippled
> (e.g. no USB support in the OSE) but so far as I have seen it's a solid
> virtualization option, and the OSE has most of the capability to create
> virtual machines.
>
> It can also run VMs made for VMWare to some extent, because it supports the
> vmdk disk format.  Windows VMs are a problem and need special treatment
> moving from vmware to virtualbox, but I think linux might be less of one.
> I might try this weekend to see if the Xastir-Hardy vm runs in virtualbox
> unmodified.
>
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