[BNM] Going Mac

[Antony Jones]

Hi.

>> After looking at Virtual Box and the licensing - and I may be  

> completely wrong here - but it seems that Virtual Box is a hassle to  
> instal. 


What gives you that impression?

I go to their site, download the .deb file for the Closed Source
version, and it installs.
If I want the open source version I type "aptitude install
virtualbox-ose" into my console and wait 15 seconds or so for it to
download and install.

If it's more difficult on Mac then hey, what can I say. You should use
something easy like Linux ;)

Ant

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 12:43 +0000, Alan Newman wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Well, I've been wondering this myself...
> 
> After looking at Virtual Box and the licensing - and I may be  
> completely wrong here - but it seems that Virtual Box is a hassle to  
> instal. It appears that the binaries only shipped under their Personal  
> Use and Evaluation Licence, where as the source is released under  
> their Open Source License.
> 
> It strikes me that is is just easier to go and buy Parallels and be  
> done with it...
> 
> ;-)
> 
> - Alan
> 
> On 30 Oct 2008, at 12:09, AndrewGill73 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm wondering why anyone would pay for Parallels when Virtualbox is  
> > free and
> > does the same job ? - can anyone enlighten me ?? Thanks.
> 
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