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Open source alternative to VMWare Fusion?

By netmeon - May 10th 2008 at 02:49 AM

Any good open source virtualization tools that can be substituted for VMWare Fusion on OS X?


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  1. By an anonymous user on May 10th 2008 at 05:50 PM

    Virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org/) is a good alternative but still has some ways to go.


    Here's a good article http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/02/14/virtualbox-move-ove...


    following known issues that are currently being worked on:


    * No support for Host Interface Networking

    * No support for Internal Networking

    * No support for audio input

    * No support for VT-x/AMD-V (rarely required)

    * No support for raw disk access

    * USB support is not stable or fully functional yet

    * The numlock emulation isn't implemented yet

    * The VirtualBox kernel extension is currently accessible from all user accounts


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  2. By ajaxer on May 11th 2008 at 03:55 AM

    I would stay away from Virtualbox. I think this will be battle tested and ready to go in a few releases but for now there are too many quirks and VMware Fusion is just perfect. If you need to use Windows frequently - I would just go with Fusion and cough up the $60...


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