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VirtualBox 2.1.4

#1 User is offline   Macworld 

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Posted 13 March 2009 - 02:45 AM

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Posted 13 March 2009 - 06:09 AM

Do you have similar test results for VMware?
After a recent horrible experience with Parallels customer support I am trying VMware but have found it to be significantly slower.
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 06:20 AM

I just installed this a few weeks ago. Works for me and it is free.
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 06:40 AM

The 2.1.4 also works great with 64-bit RHEL5 on my Mac. The shortfall is that it's still limited to 4GB of memory allocation to a VM.
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 06:42 AM

I installed VirtualBox to try out OpenSolaris. Was fun, but then had to ask myself, why? :)
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 08:06 AM

Fusion doesn't offer OpenGL acceleration, which is why it's not included in the results.

-rob.
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Posted 15 March 2009 - 04:44 AM

Virtual Box works great for me. Its worth to pay also.
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Posted 16 March 2009 - 05:24 AM

And despite what the front page of the VirtualBox site says, OpenBSD still doesn't really work (3.7 apparently does, but it's about 4 years old). In fact, people are struggling to get any of the recent BSD versions working :-(
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