Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Feb 2008 20:39 UTC, submitted by udif
Innotek has been bought by Sun. The press release reads: "Sun today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox."
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2005-07-09
Personally, I love VirtualBox. Unlike VMWare, they make file sharing easy (no SAMBA needed) and their interface is a lot cleaner than VMWare (which has borders and GUI elements takes up far too much real-estate if the resolution of your virtual machine is close to your desktop resolution).
There are only two things that give VMWare the edge:
1) Stability. VirtualBox with Windows 2000 can crash. This doesn't happen with VMWare
2) VM file portability. With VMWare, I can make one Virtual machine, and make a backup or alternate version or move it to another machine simply by copying the directory. VirtualBox requires you to use a reindexing tool and reattachment which isn't 100% hasslefree.
Sun will definitely fix (1) and that may be enough to push me off of VMWare, but I'm really hoping that Sun also take cares of (2) also since it is a maintenance issue.
Nice move Sun!