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Switching to VirtualBox

Its been long since I started using VMware, almost 2 years. VMware became one of the essential softwares of CRAVE lab due to the frequent Linux Workshop taken by the me & Joseph. All seemed well until Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy Heron, when vmware-server was removed from the partner repository of Ubuntu. Now if I had to use it again on Ubuntu, then manual installation was the only option.

Come to think of it we at CRAVE never depended on a proprietary software so much as VMware. I personally felt it was time that we left VMware and move ahead. I needed a software which was user friendly unlike Qemu. Finally I found the answer in VirtualBox, a Sun Product. I tried it out and man I loved it. It was the answer to all my problems. Now VirtualBox has replaced VMware in our essential softwares list at CRAVE. I will put up another post on the Installation of VirtualBox on Ubuntu when I get some free time.

I have put the installation guide for VirtualBox at http://crave.dbit.in/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox
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