What’s better than VMWare Unity?
Posted: May 28th, 2008 | Author: ccollins | Filed under: General | Tags: Software | 4 Comments »VMWare Unity for free!!
In the most recent releases of VMWare’s popular virtualization software has been included a feature that allows application to behave as though they are running natively in the host OS when they are actually running in a virtual machine: Unity. If none of that made any sense, you are excused from this post… wait for the next one…
For those of you still with me, you have to check out VirtualBox. VirtialBox OSE (open source edition) is a free virtualization package with some really compelling features. Check out the site and judge for yourself. It runs on most platforms, including OSX and Solaris, and can run pretty much any x86 guest OS.
The only real downside is that there are a few features (USB passthrough, RDP, USB over RDP, iSCSI magic) are only available in the commercial version. The good news is that the commercial version is free for personal use!
On my Lenovo x60t with 2GB RAM I can run Vista Ultimate in a VM (Ubuntu host OS) with no trouble. Sure the machine works hard, but the only performance issues I see are with guest OS video performance. Not bad for a 14-month old laptop.