It seems like virtualization is all the rage these days, and my second FLOSS pick is no different. A co-worker suggested I take a look at VirtualBox, and it’s a good thing. It’s fast, free, and supports Windows, Linux and BSD guest operating systems. It runs on Windows, Linux and the Mac version is in beta. Virturalization is great for testing code against different OS versions and patch levels. One of the really cool features is the ability to run seamless Windows apps in Linux. This means you can run Windows apps outside a virtual machine. As far as I know you can’t do this with VMWare, but I believe it is supported in Parallels.
VirtualBox is developed by a software company named innotek located in Stuttgart Germany (which happens to be where the HQ of the company I work for is located).
There’s a great review here, and the download can be found here.
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