[nylug-talk] [ot] anything happening with VMWARE?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 1/29/08, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> I know almost nothing about stocks and the market, but I wonder if it
> has anything to do with the fact that VirtualBox is getting better and
> VMWare's free server product seems to be getting worse.

I agree.  VMware 2.x is junk...unusable

> In general, VirtualBox strikes me as being much faster than VMWare, and
> they also have that nice little seamless thing (which basically puts a
> Windows task bar on your Linux desktop.

VirtualBox is great!  And I have extensive virtualization experience
from a programmer's/user's perspective.  VMware's API, when it works,
is great.  I have never tried the Virtualbox API.  Most people will
not even care about either API I suppose :-)

Someone told me that Virtualbox has the ability to run a program
outside the box and directly on your host, just like Apple's feature
when running Windows programs.  I haven't tried it, so I can't comment
other than to say that it appears to work from what I am told...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
"Know something about everything and everything about something."