Ayoi’s

Ok, I think I did post something about qemu and the qemu manager at this post, but somehow thanks to my colleague Akram who introduced another virtual machine application that I believe could rival VMWare anytime. This application called SUN xVM Virtual Box.

For a start, this application is free and you can download it from here (not exactly here but the download link will take you to SUN website). The installation is straight forward and to be honest the interface is kind neat and more user friendly compared to vmware.

The only downside is on the networking setup. Not as frustrated as Qemu but not as easy as VMware. But still manageable and I guess you HAVE to read the help file in order to properly setup your virtual machine network. Anyway just like VMware, you can install any type of OS as the guest Operating System.

One thing that makes me hooked with this virtual machine application is compared to VMWare, my guest operating systems (I have FreeBSD 7.0 and Windows 2003 Server) performed pretty well. No sluggishness detected (unlike VMWare) even when I have both of the guest OSes running simultaneously. At least this virtual box managed to assist me on producing my 1st technical write up.

So for time being, I put my VMware on hold and definitely this virtual box will be my main simulation platform.

OK for the fbsd, I have enlightenment installed for fun.

And this is Windows 2003 Server with SP 2

And yes, you can view those guest operating systems in full screen mode.

And no sluggishness detected when I have both of the virtual machines running at the same time

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