[Xastir] Time to discard VMware as an option?

[Tapio Sokura]

Ray Wells wrote:
> Have a look at Virtual Box. You can download it from their website as a 
> package for many Linux varieties.. I use it here to run WinXP Pro in a 
> VB under Kubuntu 9.10. It's great.

I've been running CentOS and Fedora guests on VirtualBox, using a 
Windows XP laptop host. It hasn't always been a walk in the park.

Once apparently installing security updates to Windows caused the 
virtual machines to not start. Updating VirtualBox to a newer version 
fixed that. Then once I lost the host-only network device that VB uses 
to bridge network connections and it didn't come back with a simple 
uninstall / install cycle of VirtualBox. Bridging to a WLAN card has 
also been a bit unreliable, even though the host machine has no problems 
and the WLAN signal is strong. Anyway currently everything is working 
fine again, after I installed VirtualBox 3.1.0. I haven't ran Xastir in 
VB though, so can't comment on that.

   Tapio