Colin Finck wrote:
Thanks for the information.
This VM seems to be very good. I also did not test it, but looked at the screenshots: VirtualBox supports multiple snapshots and the closed-source version, which is also available at no price for personal use, also supports USB devices. You can connect to virtual machines over RDP and the virtual USB ports will also be available through RDP. The closed-source version also has some unique features like mounting iSCSI targets as virtual disks. AFAIK no other Workstation virtualization product supports this at the moment.
In my opinion, we should support VirtualBox as a new testing platform for ReactOS, since it contains more features than QEMU and is open-source unlike VMware. It would also be easier to use for new users, who did not run a PC emulator before.
Regards,
Colin
It's funny how you're all going on about how good it is without even having tested it.
QEmu supports multiple snapshots as well, as it does USB, and it's fully open source. QEmu supports named pipes, mounting raw hard drives and any other disk that Windows can see, audio, networking etc. So I don't think it contains anywhere near as many features as QEMU, especially since most of the advanced ones you mentionned are *not* Open Source.
I'm also quite curious on how they were able to take QEMU (a GPL product) and add USB support under closed source (which QEMU already has as GPL). Sounds like a bunch of hacks to me.