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Review of Sun's Free Open Source Virtual Machine
goombah99 writes "After snapping up virtualization company InnoTek at the beginning of the year, Sun has recently released VirtualBox as a fully functional and highly polished free GPL open source x86 Virtual Machine. It can host 32- or 64-bit Linux, Windows XP Vista and 98, OpenSolaris and DOS. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix platforms. The download is just 27MB. A review of it on MacWorld, showing HD movies playing inside windows XP on a mac, demonstrates performance visually indistinguishable from VMware. Like its competition, it can run other OSes in rootless, rooted, or seamless modes display modes (where all the applications have their windows mixed at the same time). Each VM instance can only run single core (though I/O is multi-core), and it does not yet support advanced windows graphics libraries however, so some gamers may be disappointed. Slashdot discussed the InnoTek acquisition earlier.
The Sun binaries are built by paid professionals who wrote and understand the code. The debian package will be built by someone who doesn't understand what he's doing, but commenting out that code prevents compiler warnings so it must be an improvement.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
How are a bunch of questions that could have been answered by the documentation, if goombah99 wasn't too fucking lazy, in any way "interesting".
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.