Comments on: VirtualBox http://dehamerspace.com/2008/09/14/virtualbox/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Pax http://dehamerspace.com/2008/09/14/virtualbox/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Pax Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:39:21 +0000 http://dehamerspace.com/?p=45#comment-680 One of the key differences for me between VirtualPC (2007) and VirtualBox is speed. I find that on XP, my VirtualBoxes are much faster than my VirtualPC boxes. VirtualBox also uses less memory and doesn't hog resources like VirtualPC does. I started with VirtualPC 2007 but when I found I had trouble installing a number of Linux systems, particulary anything Ubuntu for some reason, I started looking for an alternate solution. Qemu wasn't the answer (had the most trouble with this one) but VirtualBox was. VirtualBox has been so great, I haven't even bothered to look into VMware. Now I run a number of lightweight Linux distros, mostly when I surf - for the added security. Even a number of middleweight distros can be run all day long without a huge performance hit on a modern system (1gb memory). One of the key differences for me between VirtualPC (2007) and VirtualBox is speed. I find that on XP, my VirtualBoxes are much faster than my VirtualPC boxes. VirtualBox also uses less memory and doesn’t hog resources like VirtualPC does.

I started with VirtualPC 2007 but when I found I had trouble installing a number of Linux systems, particulary anything Ubuntu for some reason, I started looking for an alternate solution. Qemu wasn’t the answer (had the most trouble with this one) but VirtualBox was. VirtualBox has been so great, I haven’t even bothered to look into VMware.

Now I run a number of lightweight Linux distros, mostly when I surf – for the added security. Even a number of middleweight distros can be run all day long without a huge performance hit on a modern system (1gb memory).

]]> By: Audi Nugraha http://dehamerspace.com/2008/09/14/virtualbox/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Audi Nugraha Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:23:08 +0000 http://dehamerspace.com/?p=45#comment-163 QUOTE: Immutable VDIs are read-only and can be attached to multiple virtual machines simultaneously. At run time, any requests to write data to the immutable disk are directed to a special "differencing disk" created on the fly by VirtualBox. Much like VirtualPC, VirtualBox completely discards any data written to the differencing disk when the VM is shut down. Do you know something about saving snapshot from immutable disk? Thanks in advance. QUOTE:
Immutable VDIs are read-only and can be attached to multiple virtual machines simultaneously. At run time, any requests to write data to the immutable disk are directed to a special “differencing disk” created on the fly by VirtualBox. Much like VirtualPC, VirtualBox completely discards any data written to the differencing disk when the VM is shut down.

Do you know something about saving snapshot from immutable disk?

Thanks in advance.

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