VirtualBox Question

[wolf2009]

1. Is VirtualBox x64 edition stable ?

2. Also can you run OSX on this soft ?

3. And finally is ubuntu x64 stable ?

 

[Red Squirrel]

OSX is very hard to get going as it expects to see a completely different architecture, but I've heard it's doable. I'm running a production x64 VBox setup on Fedora Core 9 and it's very stable. Much more stable then vmware 2.0. The downside is there's not really an easy way to go "headless". The closest I've gone is a bunch of vbox windows open in a VNC session.

I can't comment much on Ubuntu as I did not use it much, but in my experience it is quite stable.

 

[mc866]

VBox x64 is stable for me, ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10 should also be plenty stable.

 

[MadRat]

Be aware that when using ubuntu you first run the install (no video accelleration of course) and after the first reboot run their patch script. It runs nice and stable for me. I actually did it the hard way to get ubuntu by installing kubuntu then using apt-get to pull down gnome. From the gnome interface it's much easier to install the other desktops; KDE, xFCM, Icewm, etc. Use synaptic and it's very straight forward.