domino Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 (edited) InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "InnoTek" for more about our company. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows and Linux 32-bit hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD. Read more... Why is this in the news section? See screenshots. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots Edited January 30, 2007 by domino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fex Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 First BETA FOR OSX is out: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Sadly it crashes my osx86 when I try to boot a virtual machine - but try yourself! Felix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leopard.pwnd Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 Hi, I am new to osx86 project. As user of Linux the most logical way of doing this is to use an open source Virtualization software. I've tried Vmware but is not free hence despiteful. Besides they try to get away by giving a watered down version of the project and try to gain support in such a deceptive way. And is shown clearly in attitudes like this one: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...&st=0 "VMware Server is free and it can run OSx86 fine. Download a copy of VMware Server and follow my guide: http://######.com/software/vmwareosx86.htm" Vmware folks think they are cool because they give a palsy product for free. Well that's not cool. So I fully propose making osx86 installation on VirtualBox an alternative to Vmware. Also a section for VirtualBox + osx86 to counter Vmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Sorry for digging a way old thread but since the quote is from me, I reply. leopard.pwnd obviously has not tried this for himself and he claims that VirtualBox actually works for running OS X ON. The answer is, although VirtualBox is excellent for running supported OSes, the fact of the matter is that it DOES NOT WORK if you are trying to run OS X. The most anyone has gotten to work on VirtualBox is deadmoo, who uses deadmoo these days? I tried running JaS 10.4.8 on VirtualBox and I got greeted by a friendly EBIOS read error when I tried to boot the DVD. So the thing here is, before you start saying that X software is great for running X OS please test it for yourself. I fully support OSS and VirtualBox, because it runs supported OSes fine, but why suggest it to someone who just wants OS X? True, VMware is not free, but for servers they give a free version, VMware Server. Free as in not restrictive and "watered down" as leopard.pwned says, but not open source free. I understand your frustration of people that keep recommending commercial software to run it, but the sad truth is that VMware is the only thing I know of so far that can run OS X acceptably. I would like a open source alternative that runs OS X (I am a full supporter of projects like PearPC) but there isn't anything like that so far. Just thought I'd share this opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Here's the deadmoo process with VirtualBox, should anybody be interested: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2076 This is really compelling, because VirtualBox beats VMWare in terms of performance when running deadmoo. And VirtualBox is free, open source, and available for even more platforms than VMWare! It seems possible to use VirtualBox with Leopard too: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/ Problem is that I can't get it to work. I've been using the pcwiz vmware vmdk as a handy starting point. Even with safe mode, adjusting the res down, setting all the backwards compatibility flags I can think of (-f, x86pc, etc.) I can't get it to fully boot. It loads the kexts, then VirtualBox either just abruptly closes, or reports a fatal error and gives a logfile that is (to me) both long and meaningless. I've also tried almost every combination of settings in VirtualBox. Nothing seems to work. I've tried the native and ToH kernels. I will occasionally hack at it, but if I knew the source of the issue, it would go so far in helping guide the process. Another set of solutions for Darwin under Virtual Box: http://sites.google.com/a/puredarwin.org/p...pers/virtualbox It's so close, I can smell it. Anybody want to help? Contribute suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Here's the deadmoo process with VirtualBox, should anybody be interested:http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2076 This is really compelling, because VirtualBox beats VMWare in terms of performance when running deadmoo. And VirtualBox is free, open source, and available for even more platforms than VMWare! It seems possible to use VirtualBox with Leopard too: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/ Problem is that I can't get it to work. I've been using the pcwiz vmware vmdk as a handy starting point. Even with safe mode, adjusting the res down, setting all the backwards compatibility flags I can think of (-f, x86pc, etc.) I can't get it to fully boot. It loads the kexts, then VirtualBox either just abruptly closes, or reports a fatal error and gives a logfile that is (to me) both long and meaningless. I've also tried almost every combination of settings in VirtualBox. Nothing seems to work. I've tried the native and ToH kernels. I will occasionally hack at it, but if I knew the source of the issue, it would go so far in helping guide the process. Another set of solutions for Darwin under Virtual Box: http://sites.google.com/a/puredarwin.org/p...pers/virtualbox It's so close, I can smell it. Anybody want to help? Contribute suggestions? Hi Please could u change/correct the last link at the bottom of your post ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Fixed. See above! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 thanks indeed. I'd like test it with the last leop vmware image asap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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