Alternative to Parallels Desktop/VMWare Fusion
When MAC folk want to dip their feet back into the Windows world to remind themselves of all the stuff they really aren’t missing then most people will turn to using something like Parallels Desktop or more recently VMWare Fusion. Both are great products, both pretty much do the same thing but both come with a price tag attached.
Sun VirtualBox offers pretty much all the same functionality expect it’s free! Granted, it can’t do some of the more advanced features like boot a bootcamp partition as VMWare Fusion can but for the most part, just running a Windows installation then it’s great – it even has a seamless mode so you don’t need to run it in chrome.
So if you’re in the market for running a host OS virtually then take a look at VirtualBox over the other commercial products.
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I used to use VMware in Windows, but moved to Virtualbox a couple of months ago. It’s absolutely fantastic for my needs and now I use Linux 70% of the time I use it there too!
Great timing on this! Just this past weekend, I started playing with VirtualBox on my Mac in the hopes of being able to move completely there for my development. I’ve had good success so far in getting the one piece of my puzzle that has to be Windows-based — MS SQL Server — running on virtual machine under VIrtualBox with the Windows 7 RC as the guest OS. Just a proof of concept so far, but it is working very well so far…