Installing VirtualBox on Hardy

[Soren Hansen]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:54:50PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>> I've read good things about VirtualBox so I'm hoping it will not
>>> have the many deficiencies of VMWare Server. (If there are other
>>> "free" server virtualization products worth trying, I'd like to hear
>>> of them.)
>> KVM is all the rage these days.
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
> Thanks. But this appears to be an option only for the well-heeled
> whose fancy servers support the extended instructions. My P4 likely
> doesn't. :-(

Perhaps not. It's easy to check, though. There are instructions for that
on that page.

> >> But I don't want all that graphical X-Windows and Qt bloat 
> > Then VirtualBox is not for you. At least not the free version. It
> > doesn't have a headless mode. The non-free version... Well, we can't
> > really help you with that :)
> Actually they do have the ability to run headless as of v1.6.

Looking at their webpage and documentation I see nothing that would
suggest that this feature has been included in their OSE version now. It
still seems to be only in their "full" edition.

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Soren Hansen               | 
Virtualisation specialist  | Ubuntu Server Team
Canonical Ltd.             | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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