![]() ![]() Installation of both operating systems was flawless. I gave VirtualBox a spin with both Windows 2000 and Ubuntu 7.10 guests. ![]() VirtualBox supports an impressive range of guest systems. These are called Guest Additions, and work in much the same way as Parallels Tools and VMware Tools – you get smooth graphics and mouse performance, as well as the ability to resize the guest desktop simply by resizing the VM window.Ĭreating a new VM. VirtualBox includes tools for both Windows and Linux guests. VirtualBox supports a wide range of guest operating systems, including most flavours of Windows, many Linux distros, FreeBSD, DOS and even NetWare. For the purposes of this review I tested the PUEL edition. It also has more features than the GPL edition at the time of writing, including USB support and an RDP server for remote access (here’s a full list of the differences). The latter is free as in beer, provided of course it’s just for personal use or evaluation purposes. VirtualBox actually comes in two flavours: an open-source GPL edition, and a proprietary “VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL)” edition. To be fair, the Mac version only came out of beta at the start of this month – at least, that’s my excuse! – and this is the version I’ll review here. I confess that I’ve been blissfully unaware of VirtualBox, despite it being around for a couple of years. My recent comparison of Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion attracted a lot of comments, many of which pointed out a third, free virtualization app for the Mac: VirtualBox. ![]()
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