VMware Server on Gutsy ?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Oct 22 19:14:00 UTC 2007


Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:15:09PM +0100, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
>> If it's easy enough for you to create a VM from scratch, you could give
>> VirtualBox a spin too.  There are plenty of HowTo's available.  Windows
>> guests generally won't seem to migrate from VMWare to VirtualBox without
>> some significant problems, but when I tried it out, it seemed a lot
>> faster.  There is an open source version available (which you have to
>> compile I think)
> 
> No -- the open-source version of virtualbox is in the Ubuntu
> repositories (package virtualbox-ose).
> 
> (The Qt-based GUI looks incredibly ugly on my GNOME desktop.)

Hah!  That's to make up for all the ugly GTK guis we KDE users have to put
up with :-)
-- 
derek





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