Re: VM software for personal use?



On Fri,23.Apr.10, 09:31:45, Richard Lawrence wrote:

I am looking to run some virtual machines for personal use: I'd like
...
I value:
- free over non-free
- ease of use and good documentation over performance
- installation via apt and reasonable default configuration
- simple networking on commodity hardware
- other basic integration with host OS services (perhaps file sharing,
USB, printing)

Except for USB the package virtualbox-ose in Debian will meet all your
requirements. (OSE stands for Open Source Edition)

If USB is a must you can use the repos from Sun (the USB stuff is
non-free).

Regards,
Andrei
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