Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by skuzins » Tue, Feb 12, 2008, 7:59 PM UTC

Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek
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Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by omnipath » Tue, Feb 12, 2008, 8:33 PM UTC

I don't know what to think about this. Isn't this basically giving up the ghost on Solaris? But on the other hand, no matter the underlying OS or hardware, it seems like Sun will be able to take advantage of the situation. Seems like a hedge bet to me than perhaps any real use, unless they embed it into Solaris.

I was just about to try VirtualBox on Os X, by the by. Has anybody here tried it?

Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by jws » Tue, Feb 12, 2008, 9:03 PM UTC

I wonder if the "commercial license only" features of VirtualBox will become free. There are a couple of those that I've been wanting, but not enough to negotiate a license.

VirtualBox on OS X is crippled at the moment because it doesn't do Leopard.

Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by mark_h » Tue, Feb 12, 2008, 9:50 PM UTC

jws wrote: post #3

I wonder if the "commercial license only" features of VirtualBox will become free. There are a couple of those that I've been wanting, but not enough to negotiate a license. VirtualBox on OS X is crippled at the moment because it doesn't do Leopard.

Leopard support (plus a few more mac improvements) was released a couple of days ago.

Works fine so far in my experience.

Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by gibsonf1 » Tue, Feb 12, 2008, 11:35 PM UTC

This is really nice sw and very easy to use. I'm setting up Ubuntu on my XP dell laptop right now - sweet!

Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by gibsonf1 » Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 12:29 AM UTC

gibsonf1 wrote: post #5

This is really nice sw and very easy to use. I'm setting up Ubuntu on my XP dell laptop right now - sweet!

I've got Ubuntu running :)

Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by rams » Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 3:58 AM UTC

gibsonf1 wrote: post #5

This is really nice sw and very easy to use. I'm setting up Ubuntu on my XP dell laptop right now - sweet!

Agreed. It's a really sweet piece of work and proves that not very startup's product has to be web-based.;-)

Re: Sun to buy VirtualBox maker Innotek

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Post by bayareaguy » Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 9:19 AM UTC

omnipath wrote: post #2

I don't know what to think about this. Isn't this basically giving up the ghost on Solaris? But on the other hand, no matter the underlying OS or hardware, it seems like Sun will be able to take advantage of the situation. Seems like a hedge bet to me than perhaps any real use, unless they embed it into Solaris. I was just about to try VirtualBox on Os X, by the by. Has anybody here tried it?

VirtualBox is fun. My kids use it to play their favorite old windows games on their OSX laptops. It seems to be about as functional as VMware was a few years go. The biggest difficulty I encountered setting it up was getting the drivers you need installed in the guest os.