{"id":58,"date":"2007-07-17T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/58"},"modified":"2007-07-17T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T14:28:29","slug":"vmware-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/58","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211;> VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of ongoing problems with VMware Workstation 5.5.x&#8217;s kernel module that can&#8217;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, &#8230;) that accumulated over time, I decided to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/\">VirtualBox<\/a> 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 \ud83d\ude09 The only thing I&#8217;m missing so far, is the &#8220;Team&#8221; stuff of VMware Workstation &#8211; which is great for building a small &#8211; completely virtual &#8211; test network, without having to fiddle with tun\/tap on the host machine.<\/p>\n<p>Great job, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innotek.de\/index.php?lang=en\">innotek<\/a>! Thanks a lot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of ongoing problems with VMware Workstation 5.5.x&#8217;s kernel module that can&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMware &#8211;> VirtualBox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}