The new VirtualBox brings seamless virtualization to Linux. This puts Linux on par with the Mac - users can run their native desktop but still launch the odd Windows-only program when they need to. The VirtualBox manual doesn’t give much detail on the new feature, so here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly of VirtualBox 1.5



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1. doesn't work with compiz fusion (the desktop rendering engine that all of the 'almost ready for production' linux distros like Ubuntu 7.10 are using).
2. It isn't seamless. Seamless means I can just run a windows app just like it was a native app. No windows taskbar on my screen, no setting up a full VM with a full windows install, etc.

It definitely still needs a lot of work.

1. doesn't work with compiz fusion (the desktop rendering engine that all of the 'almost ready for production' linux distros like Ubuntu 7.10 are using).

Yeah, noticed that as well.

2. It isn't seamless. Seamless means I can just run a windows app just like it was a native app. No windows taskbar on my screen, no setting up a full VM with a full windows install, etc.

Yeah, I was hoping it would be, but I guess not. What's seamless right now other than WINE?

Nothing that I'm aware of. I don't research it because there isn't a single windows app that I need, ever.

actually, I take that back. I need windows to do a firmware flash of my windows mobile phone. that's what I have a very small windows xp partition for :P

Lol. I have some windows apps that I just can't live without. Photoshop, miranda-im, and shareaza, just to name a few.

yeah gimp just.. does not compare to photoshop. I can get by with it though. I do basic photo editing with it, I don't do any hand drawn (tablet) graphics work with it. That's what I have a mac for :D

I hate IM and the only file sharing I do is Internet2 DC++ so yeah the linux client is just as good as any other.