-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Christensen wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > >> I would appreciate opinions on the relative advantages/disadvantages >> of these two apps. > > I've been using VMware products for years, primarily to host > development environments on Windows desktops. > It's easy to use, robust, and > efficient enough for my needs. VMware is up front with their > licensing; they make commercial products and offer free trial versions > for evaluation and home use. There are numerous community-developed > VM's available for the price of a download. In return, I have my > clients buy licenses when I need VMware products on a project. I > haven't done it yet, but VMware's claim to host the same VM in > development, test, and production environments is *very* appealing. > (I've always had to deal with differing environments, and it can be > nightmare.) > > I've looked at VirtualBox and passed it up -- Sun does not offer > binaries for their OSS version,
No, but there are binaries for most distributions in their respective repositories, including debian. > they are not up front with their > licenses (searching for 'license' did not find any links on the > download or FAQ pages), registration is required for some parts but > not others, etc.. It strikes me as yet another commercial product > with a disingenuous OSS sales pitch. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ . Took me 5 seconds to find using the "docs" links in the menu on the left side. > Xen looks like a true OSS project aimed at Linux on Linux. I'd like > to try some day. > > What are you trying to accomplish? > > HTH, > > David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksQMcoACgkQkPq5zKsAFigvVgCaA2NLYzhz2Z1GMXXb2+VV2vCe eCkAnAz8bU+xPjNb/pDTCbH5Pr9jNK94 =muFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
