Re: [ros-dev] Yet another VM

[Alex Ionescu]

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.

-- 
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS