Virtual Box

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 12:17:37 UTC 2009


Mike Burger wrote:

> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:32:23 -0700
>> Aldo Foot wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I think VirtualBox may be preferred because it appears more
>>> manageable in the surface.
>>>     
>>
>> A friend at work who uses it says it is vastly easier to
>> do things like pass USB devices through to the virtual hardware
>> with VirtualBox than with anything else he has tried,
>> so he can do things like use Windows scanner software for
>> scanners not supported by anything in linux.
>>
>>   
> I have to agree...at this point, I simply installed the VirtualBox RPM,
> ran the setup, started up VirtualBox, and voila!!!
> 
I have stuck with VB (after trying kvm) because the interface (mouse, video) 
on VB work much better.  Using kvm (through qemu) lacks a lot in terms of 
interface.





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