Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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Author: Tony Whitmore
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box
Adam Trickett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday rather than attend the LUG meeting as I had intended, I stayed at
> home nursing my cold. When I wasn't feeling too bad I had a go at installing
> VirtualBox for Linux on my Debian Lenny system.
>
> It's another virtualisation package like VMWare, Xen, and Qemu. This one is
> more like Xen and Qemu/kqemu in that it's a para-virtualisation application,
> and best of all it doesn't require a new generation CPU with virtalisation
> hardware.


If people are interested in seeing Virtualbox in action, remember that
Alan did a lightning talk on it in March:

http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TechTalks/10thMarch2007

Cheers,

Tony