VeeDee-Eyes.com: VirtualBox VDI images for download
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
VirtualBox has been getting more and more attention as of late. It is vastly superior to other virtualization programs due to the simple fact that it actually runs on my system. All the others either don’t install (VMWare), crash (QEMU), or are a real bitch to set up properly (Xen). VirtualBox is Open Source, easy to install, fast, runs on Linux and Windows and it has both a very nice GUI and a very decent commandline interface. VirtualBox is what VMWare (for Linux) could have been, but better.
Now, WMWare has pre-built images online at their Appliances site. Qemu has the Free OS Zoo. Now there’s one for VirtualBox too:
The VirtualBox “Virtual Disk Image” Index
VDI images of pre-installed “Open Source” Operating System distros.
It’s a computer inside your computer.-Instantly run another operation system on your desktop in a window, on almost any computer.
-Implement full Linux functionality on an existing Windows Desktop or server.
I’ve been looking for this for a while. All it’s currently missing are OpenSolaris and various BSD images. I’m sure these will be added rather quickly.
PS: It appears Innotek, the creators of VirtualBox, have been acquired by Sun. I’m not sure yet whether Sun’s acquiring of Open Source companies is a good or bad thing. Guess we’ll have to see where it goes. Perhaps they should get the benefit of the doubt since they did free the source of StarOffice (Open Office), Java (in part) and Solaris (in part). I’m just not sure whether Sun understands the Open Source philosophy and community.