mardi février 12, 2008 
mardi février 12, 2008 Sun to acquire VirtualBox creator Innotek
This really sounds like a late Christmas! I am very excited about mySQL but this new VirtualBox/InnoTek acquisition is also very nice as I've been a happy user for a little while to run recent Solaris SXDE builds on various guest OS's.
More on Steve Wilson's blog.
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I wonder what's the point about that - doesn't Sun so far have quite a bunch of good virtualization solutions in its portfolio?
Cheers,
Kristian
Posted by kawazu on février 13, 2008 at 08:23 AM CET #
Hi. I'm not privy to the medium/long term strategy, but this certainly removed the dependency on VMWare some time ago for me. As a developer using several different OSs every day, I'm glad to have found virtualbox.
Posted by Alexis MP on février 13, 2008 at 01:40 PM CET #
Solaris isn't (yet) a first-class citizen though...
Posted by Alexis MP on février 13, 2008 at 01:41 PM CET #
Hmmmmm... Solaris as a guest OS inside VirtualBox, or Solaris being a VirtualBox host?
Posted by kawazu on février 13, 2008 at 01:46 PM CET #
Solaris as a host is brand new and I haven't used it. For a while SXDE wouldn't install on virtualbox (now fixed in 1.5.4, but not on Mac as it is a bit behind). I have colleagues reporting successful installs of Indiana preview 2 in virtualbox on the mac...
Posted by Alexis MP on février 13, 2008 at 01:49 PM CET #