Because of ongoing problems with VMware Workstation 5.5.x’s kernel module that can’t be used with Linux 2.6.22, because of the fact that VMware is asking me to pay $99 to upgrade to VMware Workstation 6.0 (after I paid quite a sum for VMware Workstation 5.0 some time ago) and because of some other reasons (problems with GTK, only supporting OSS for sound output, …) that accumulated over time, I decided to give VirtualBox a try. And so far it looks really great. The fact that it has been completely open sourced, and it has been created by a company just some kilometres away from my home town are also a bonus 😉 The only thing I’m missing so far, is the “Team” stuff of VMware Workstation – which is great for building a small – completely virtual – test network, without having to fiddle with tun/tap on the host machine.
Great job, innotek! Thanks a lot!