Submitted by This tutorial shows how to install and use VirtualBox on Fedora Core 6, CentOS 4, and OpenSuSE 10.2. InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License. On a related note, Qemu 0.9.0 was released along with a new version of the Qemu accelerator (the latter’s license being changed to GPL).
I glad to see the author finally freed the KQemu accleration module. That was quite a sore point for some people. Qemu is pretty slow without it. Previously, if I remember correctly, the author said he would need some dough to set if free. I wonder if someone sponsored the freeing of the acceleration module?
Probably Win4Lin.
http://www.win4lin.com/content/view/131/155/
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Virtualbox is very useful and very easy to manage
We now have two high-quality open source virtualization products.
But why has QEmu Accelerator been GPL’ed? I can’t find an announcement anywhere that explains the reason.
What reason do you need… why? who cares if it’s because he got sponsored or because of the pressure of competing offers… Fabrice released it & that’s what counts!!!!
The QEMU Accelerator version 1.3.0pre10 is available (Changelog) in Open Source under the GNU General Public License. A detailed technical specification and API description is available.
Feb 5, 2007
Edited 2007-02-06 17:39
What reason do you need… why? who cares if it’s because he got sponsored or because of the pressure of competing offers… Fabrice released it & that’s what counts!!!!
Take a deep breath. I was just wondering because the same mechanism might apply to other projects. It would be nice to know that some company ponied up the dough, and maybe other companies could too. It was not intended as any kind of criticism.
I rarely say that for people but i think Fabrice is really a technical wizard…i mean the stuff he does is pretty amazing and he is a really really sharp guy…Kudos to him…
Really OSS is successful because of people like him…
I’ve been using VirtualBox for the past two weeks… It’s amazing and blows Qemu out of the water as far as usability, speed and polish is concerned. You guys are doing a major disservice if you don’t check virtualbox out.
I did run across one little problem (I’m sure it’s documented), after installing a virtual Windows(c) instance you want to mount the ISO that came with the install and that’ll install all additional drivers you need.
gets alittle ways into the kernel boot and then panics. anyone else see/resolve that issue?
Isn’t this just a nice GUI for Qemu though – the website says it uses Qemu.
For that matter, isn’t KVM essentially kqemu built into the kernel – possibly why it was GPL’ed?
And what’s the difference between the evaluation binaries and building the OSS edition from source – are the best bits left out of the OSS edition (like the old Qt fiasco)?
There’s so many virtualisation systems popping up lately and they all seem to be the same and based on Qemu – other than VMWare/Xen of course….
Previous builds of Qemu were so slow under Windows, I hope they’ve sped up.