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Any plans to support VirtualBox VMs?
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Inappropriate?Hello,
We definitely have plans to support VirtualBox directly as well as another free cross-platform option, qemu. I'm not certain on the timeline for these, though.
In the meantime we've had success importing VMware images manually to run in VirtualBox.
The approach used was to import the VMDK images into the Virtual Media Manager. Then we create a new machine a select the VMDK images, taking care to add them as SATA images rather than IDE.
More specifically, we package 2 VMDK images in our VMware servers. A primary (boot + data) image and a swap image. The primary image needs to be assigned to SATA Port 0 and the swap to SATA Port 1.
After that everything should just work.
Hope this helps.
Nicholas
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Inappropriate?vmware is definitely cross platform too !
vmware player on windoz
vmware server on gnu/linux
vmware fusion on apple mac osx -
Inappropriate?The original poster wanted free alternatives. Player and Server are free (with various limitations) but Fusion isn't.
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Inappropriate?ps i dont think virtualbox is free for commercial use either
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Inappropriate?VirtualBox has a couple of versions. The OSE (Open Source Edition) is available under the GPL and is "...functionally equivalent to the full VirtualBox package, except for a few features that primarily target enterprise customers." (Quote from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions)
However most commercial users are going to want the support that comes from buying a license from Sun. -
Inappropriate?your right and of course virtualbox is only free libre open one !
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