Wednesday, January 14, 2009

20090113 VirtualBox

Still doesn't cut it on OpenSolaris

1) The version that you can as "extra" repository is v2.0.6, whereas the current version from http://virtualbox.org is 2.1.0

2) Even 2.1.0 on OpenSolaris doesn't support bridged (transparent) networking with a wireless host (iwk0) network device. Have to use NAT.

3) PAINFULLY SLOW. (at least on OS2008.11 with 1GB RAM), with a 64MB guest (ok Windows 98, but that's just for testing since it's got a small memory footprint)