I've done a couple experiments with headless VirtualBox and the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/">PhpVirtualBox</a> utility. It does the job.<div><br clear="all">--Cameron<a href="http://ghostfreeman.net" target="_blank"></a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
> My host is Windoze 7 64 bit.<br>
><br>
> I am debating between VMPlayer 3 vs VirtualBox 4.<br>
><br>
> Does it even matter ? VMPlayer cannot be run headless while VirtualBox<br>
> I guess can be.<br>
><br>
> Which product is more OpenSource friendly VMP or VBX ?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I don't think either is OpenSource.<br>
<br>
I would go with vmplayer. I use both. Virtualbox on my mac running a<br>
Centos vm and vmplayer on windows with Fedora vm. The one failing I see<br>
with Virtualbox is that you can't simply archive a virtual machine and<br>
drop it on another Virtualbox machine. With vmware I can use my Centos<br>
VM on any machine running vmware. I understand there is a way to do<br>
this on virtualbox, but you have hoops to jump through.<br>
<br>
One good example. I installed a new hard drive in my mac. Originally I<br>
had two partitions on my mac, one for the Mac stuff, the other for my<br>
vm. I had to name the partition the same name as was on the previous<br>
drive otherwise, virtualbox would not run my archived vm.<br>
<br>
Others might have more experience with this issue. As for me, I'm<br>
likely to move my virtualbox VM to vmware in the future.<br>
<br>
><br>
> -Narahari<br>
><br>
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