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View Poll Results: Virtualization Product of the Year
VirtualBox for me. I used VmWare before but VirtualBox does everything I need and I think it's a little lighter on resources too (totally subjective). I think that if you need bridged networking VmWare is much easier to set up/use but I don't any more so I chose the one that's more freedom friendly.
VirtualBox for me too, but, please, don't call it free w/o at least 2 qualifications:
The proprietary side is not free for commercial use.
The community side does not does not guarantee the freedom of any contributed code, at least so says a local Debian maintainer & Open Source developer.
#2 was pointed out to me when I, too, tried to tout the freedom of VirtualBox. He immediately looked up the license & made a complaint on the order of "they take it [your code] under a BSD license & give it back under the GPL". I think he meant that he wouldn't want to contribute because his code would also wind up inside the proprietary version.
Indeed, there isn't however a dedicated virtualization forum.
I believe at least Xen and VMWare do allow that.
Yeah, the Xen thing is great, but isn't yet mature enough for mainstream VMs (IMHO), and VMWare lists it in their Workstation Datasheet... but VMWare Workstation isn't free, is it?
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