Some time ago nearly everyone was blogging about this event - Sun Microsystems acquiring Innotek. So this entry are my (possibly redundant) two cents. I have to admit I've always been sceptical to running non-native applications on some OS. And even whole operating system! (My scepticism come from ancient times when i was trying to run some very simple Windows-based application under Wine emulator- after few clicks I always ended with "segmentation fault"
). VirtualBox was my second experience on this field, and I have to say a very nice surprise! Reasons?
Beause of reasons above - VirtualBox has settled permanently on my laptop. I hope I'll spare some time for studying possible tweaks to make first great experience even greater!
). VirtualBox was my second experience on this field, and I have to say a very nice surprise! Reasons?
- Out of box installation - either download ~17MB binary, or (on Linux) install by package manager. Easy.
- Nice and intuitive GUI - Created virtual machine with a little help of simple wizards. No need for any special setup.
- Performance - Cannot compare with competitors, but subjectively was very good.
- Irrational - I just fell in love with this piece of software.
Beause of reasons above - VirtualBox has settled permanently on my laptop. I hope I'll spare some time for studying possible tweaks to make first great experience even greater!