[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Feb 13, 2008 12:46 PM, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:

> S h i v wrote:
> > It had been just a couple of days back that I downloaded Virtual Box
> > sources to build on OpenSolaris and below piece of news arrives.
> >
> > Sun has bought Virtual Box:
> > http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/sun_grabs_virtualbox
> >
> > Interesting aspects about Virtual Box:
> > 1. It is a native virtualization and full virtualization meaning it
> > allows an unmodified guest OS to run (unlike xVM/Xen on OpenSolaris)
> >
>
>   Correction. xVM/Xen also allows unmodified Guest OSes to run like
> Windows
>   in hardware assisted virtualization mode that uses the AMDV and IntelVT
>   processor extensions.
>   We have successfully run WinXP/Vista on xVM.
>
> > 2. It has been available under dual license - open source and commercial
> > 3. Finally the reason that got me interested - It probably is one
> > solution supporting widest array of host operating systems (including
> > OpenSolaris based platforms)
> > (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)
> >
>
>   However Virtualbox is a beast apart! It is completely painless to
> install and use
>   with intuitive GUI, high performance and stable, supports an array of
> Guest
>   OSes. We just tried various stuff with Virtualbox running on SXDE host
> OS
>   without any issues. In addition Virtualbox can also utilize the
> processor extensions
>   alluded to above.
>
>   BTW it uses Qt :) I am Hoping we will soon see Qt bundled in
> SXDE/Indiana.
>
Aah, that would be nice!
Have not seen the VirtualBox sources. Do they compile Qt statically into it?
Which version of Qt is used by Virtual Box?

>
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
> > regards
> > Shivakumar
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Manish Chakravarty
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