An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
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Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#2Hope not.
I fear most for OpenSolaris. It's harder to fork than VirtualBox and far bigger.
Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#3Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news.
Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.
Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#4I suspect they've concluded that virtualization is a complement to databases.
Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#5I suspect they've concluded that virtualization is a complement to databases.
They concluded that a long time ago - OracleVM. Looks like the strategy is OracleVM on the server and VirtualBox on the desktop.
Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#6Hope not. I fear most for OpenSolaris. It's harder to fork than VirtualBox and far bigger.
How come? Our experience with OpenSolaris so far has been headache-y.
Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#7Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news. Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.
I do it the other way around. Ubuntu is my primary OS environment, and VirtualBox lets me run those other OSs for various work-related things. It allows me to stay logged into Linux all day.
Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#8Hope not. I fear most for OpenSolaris. It's harder to fork than VirtualBox and far bigger.
How come? Our experience with OpenSolaris so far has been headache-y.
I have some limited experience with OpenSolaris, but it has, so far, been good.
I particularly love ZFS and its Linux-ish the package management.
They could have the latest Gnome desktop for the adventurous ones.
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Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project
#10Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news. Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.
I do it the other way around. Ubuntu is my primary OS environment, and VirtualBox lets me run those other OSs for various work-related things. It allows me to stay logged into Linux all day.
Same Here. My organization run backend on ubuntu machine, but as I am both a backend and frontend developer, I run Ubuntu as my base OS (for backend) and Win7 (for frontend), as Host OS on VirtualBox.