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VirtualBox from Sun / Oracle Today I am here to taunt my recent, but hopefully long lasting experience with VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a general-purpose virtualization platform for x86 based systems. It is taunted to be targeted at server, desktop & embedded applications, and also as being the only professional level Open Source alternative out [...] I finally seemed to have caught a nice break. I had recently rebuilt a lab server at home. The basic setup is Fedora Core 10 & VMware Server 2.0.2, 4GB memory and a 500GB WD-Blue SATA2 drive, all managed by the latest AMD Athlon II X4 processor. I had a handful of VMs [...] So, like I mentioned on my first dab into VMWaredom, virtualization heaven came for me at the right time and the right place. It bought me a heck of a lot extra hardware, for which the company didn’t have any funding for. And like most companies do, management was still expecting deliverables by the [...] Virtualization Such a wonderful concept. Use the same 10 year old -back then- monster server, you had to run your entire Active Directory, and put it to better use running multiple servers, each isolated from the other. Even better, how about a self contained development-testing-production environment for a start up company? I first came [...] |
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