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Offline Phil

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VirtualBox - very impressed
« on: April 09, 2012, 07:28:13 AM »
I had QtQemu installed until a few days ago. It was slow and I could not see what the virtualisation fuss was all about.

On Saturday I got getvirtualbox (thanks Pinoc). I am very impressed.

I have now banged in half a dozen different systems, used the bridging network thing, and have been using ssh to access several virtual machines. Each machine runs fast and works much better than I expected.

Quite an eye opener.


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Re: VirtualBox - very impressed
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2012, 11:37:23 AM »
I agree with you Phil I too find it the best VM application.

And the getvirtualbox script works really well, as, apart from downloading and installing VB, it also adds the Extension Pack automatically.
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Re: VirtualBox - very impressed
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2012, 03:37:46 PM »
Yep, +1 to that. VirtualBox runs circles around qemu any day.
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Re: VirtualBox - very impressed
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 07:56:13 PM »
Hey, Guys -- a compliment for whoever built that 'getvirtualbox' script!!! I just ran across this thread after having tried to install VB directly from Oracle's site, and wound up in dependency hell. Getvirtualbox did the job and all I had to do was watch :) !!!

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