Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> espoused: > Open source VirtualBox challenges VMware Workstation > > ,----[ Quote ] >| I tested VirtualBox 1.5.2 on both Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and Ubuntu >| 7.10 ?Gutsy Gibbon.? As with previous versions, installation was >| straightforward. The only caveat was the need to manually configure bridged >| networking support -- a process that involved creating a network bridge >| between the VirtualBox TAP adapter driver and the local NIC driver on the >| host. After this bridge was in place I could browse my local network from the >| guest OS and access resources on the host OS. As with previous versions, >| though, I did encounter the occasional IP address conflict message from both >| the host (Vista) and guest (Windows XP). > `---- > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/17/51TC-innotek-virtualbox_1.html > > Again, as with the database example, there is no doubt that foss versions of such utilities will eliminate the non-foss ones in the end, at least in all but very exceptional cases. -- | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk | | Cola faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ | | Cola trolls: http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ | | My (new) blog: http://www.thereisnomagic.org |