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Sun open sources Mac OS X virtualisation tool
SUN MICROSYSTEMS HAS unveiled a useful little update to its xVM VirtualBox, open sauce desktop virtualisation, which now has support for both Solaris and Mac OS X.
The update means that Sun is now officially the first firm to have launched open source virtualisation for those particular two operating systems.
Sun is seeking a niche in the big-business virtualisation market. Its Virtual Box, which was developed by German company Innotek, bought by Sun this February, can run as an application on a host operating system, allowing several guest OSs to run on top of it.
The software comes in a free, open sauce version as well as in a licensed version sporting advanced features, which is also free, but only for individual use. Any business users who want the software have to cough up for the purchase licenses.
Sun claims that as well as supporting Solaris and Mac OS X as hosts, its new and improved VirtualBox 1.6 now also comes with seamless windowing for Solaris and Linux guests, SATA support for up to 32 hard disks per VM and a programming interface for Web services. Solaris is also supported as a guest OS, but Mac OS X is not as yet.
Windows, as well as several Linux and Unix versions are supported as guests and Linux, Windows and experimental support for OS/2 Warp are supported hosts. µ
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I download my open sauce applications from recipe.com.
closed sauce keeps longer.
When will they learn? The quickest way to anger the devil is by making the devil's OS run on anything other than the devil's hardware... Apple sues Sun Microsystems in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4.... "Get off my EULA, Sun!"
Eric, if you read the article itself, rather than just the title, you would have seen that OS X is supported as a host, not a client. That could very well be due to EULA issues. So there isn't any reason to sue Sun, from Apple's point of view.
OSX as the HOST.... It's still a no go as a guest yet.
@Eric P. Why should Apple sure them? As written in the text OS X won't run as guest OS and therefore "Get off my EULA, Sun!" simple doesn't work. ;-)
Not sure I can withstand the multiple insatiations! So whot happens after four hours? Who has the benchmarks? Willst I contract BSODs?
To those who claim that open sauce lags behind closed sauce ... remember it will ketchup.