Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box

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Author: Adam Trickett
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Box
On Sunday 11 Nov 2007, Tony Whitmore wrote:
> 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
>


Pity I missed it. I'll have to have a look.

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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