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Posted on 02-08-10 10:51:40 PM Link | Quote

As part of a Term paper, I need to do a comparison of various virtualization suites, but I don't know of many (Just VirtualBox, VMWare, and MVPC2007). Are there any good free virtualization suites available that aren't in the three mentioned above?

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Posted on 02-08-10 10:54:42 PM Link | Quote
DOSBox doesn't count? As well as various emulators, depending on how "virtual" you want to go.

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Posted on 02-08-10 10:56:27 PM Link | Quote

I guess I should probably clarify

x86 Virtualization, something you might be able to consider for use in a SOHO (Small Office / Home Office) environment.

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Posted on 02-08-10 10:59:59 PM Link | Quote
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I don't mean to hijack this thread and not contribute anything... but if you figure out a way to virtualize OSX Snow Leopard in all of this, please talk with me. It'd REALLY help for my iPhone dev class (so I dont have to travel all the way across campus to the friggin mac labs )

Otherwise... uh, I think lifehacker ran an article on PC virtualization once. There might be some information if you do some digging.

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Posted on 02-08-10 11:07:39 PM Link | Quote
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Don't forget QEMU and Bochs. Those are both open-source, I believe.

Also, Sine: I believe someone did a Mac OS X VMWare package. Treeki sent it along to me a while back, but I couldn't use it (my processor doesn't support SSE3). Ask him about it when you have the chance

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Posted on 02-08-10 11:11:22 PM Link | Quote
I used to use Virtual PC 2009, but then I switched to VirtualBox. I find that VirtualBox works better for Linux than Virtual PC, but I had to do some mingling to get Windows 98SE to work. (I also have a Russian 98SE running on VirtualBox, too. =D)

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Posted on 02-08-10 11:44:30 PM (last edited by Sukasa at 02-08-10 08:44 PM) Link | Quote

I'm on Vista, so I can't use MVPC2009/WVPC

Thanks for the QEMU and Bochs tips

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Posted on 02-09-10 12:39:47 AM (last edited by Bagel at 02-08-10 09:40 PM) Link | Quote
There's also Parallels Desktop. Some prefer it over VMWare, but it offers pretty much the same featureset. As for it being "free" ... well, it's not. There's a trial though.

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Posted on 02-09-10 03:58:51 AM Link | Quote
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Heh, don't forget to compare VMWare Server and VMWare Workstation. It's like the difference between shit brown and awesome.

Also, not sure if DOSEMU does any virtualization.

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Posted on 02-14-10 07:20:15 PM Link | Quote
I've used both VirtualBox and QEMU personally, but they're already up there

I know of only xen otherwise, but I believe that it's a whole thin operating system ...
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Posted on 02-14-10 09:46:50 PM Link | Quote
I use VirtualBox running Windows 3.1 for a few old games, but it causes a lot of errors and crashes

I would use Virtual PC, but my Windows 7 wasn't expensive enough.

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Posted on 02-14-10 09:54:08 PM Link | Quote
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Originally posted by Terra
I use VirtualBox running Windows 3.1 for a few old games, but it causes a lot of errors and crashes

I would use Virtual PC, but my Windows 7 wasn't expensive enough.
You can't use VPC 2004?

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Posted on 02-15-10 03:42:31 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Supakitsune
Originally posted by Terra
I use VirtualBox running Windows 3.1 for a few old games, but it causes a lot of errors and crashes

I would use Virtual PC, but my Windows 7 wasn't expensive enough.
You can't use VPC 2004?
VPC 2004 and 2007 don't work on Win7, as far as I know.

Try this out, it may work: x86 / x64 - It's the download for Professional (which seems to be the same as the download for the other supported versions).

I'm not sure whether it will work, but it's worth a try - I don't know whether it's just the downloadable XP mode that's restricted, or the entire VPC app.

According to a Google search, VPC 2007 does work on Win7, although it didn't work for me. So if the version I linked above doesn't work, you could try 2007 - even if it doesn't work, nothing will screw up.

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