[PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

[Daniel Herrington]

David,

I had to abandon virtual box on Ubuntu because I ran into some serious 
issues early on. Could barely get through a Windows Server install, and 
accessing the machine was very slow.

I used vmware server on Ubuntu but it's no longer supported. I finally 
settled on KVM.

Have you tried KVM? I've been using it successfully without issues for 
about a year. I find it very intuitive and easy to build, copy, and 
maintain images on the command line.

Dan H.

David Mandel wrote, On 04/20/2011 01:49 PM:
> Have people had problems with Virtual Box on openSuSE or other Linux?
> Or have I simply screwed something up with my particular installation
> of Virtual Box?
>
> I originally used Virtual Box with Windows 7 as the host OS and was
> able to install and run most any OS I wanted including openSuSE,
> Fedora, Ubuntu, several different versions of Knoppix, PC-BSD, and
> openSolaris with few problems.
>
> Now that I'm using openSuSE 11.3 as the host OS, I have been able to
> install a good working version of Windows XP, but seem to have major
> problems installing and running other OSs.  I may have been successful
> with Ubuntu, and haven't tried openSuSE or Fedora; but have major
> problems using Knoppix and PC-BSD.
>
> Are problems like this common with virtual box in Linux?
>
> I'm short on time and almost ready to go back to VM-Ware server which
> has served me well over the years.
>
> David Mandel
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