VirtualBox, Open Source VMWare !

Bon j'avais le gout de tirer partit de ma quantité énorme de ram (2.5GB) en mettant Linux en virtual machine. J'ai essayé avec Microsoft VirtualPC, ce qui ne marchais pas, Ubuntu refesant d'afficher le X server. En gros, ca virais tout plein de lignes et de buzz partout dans l'écran ausitot que X démarrais. En cherchant VMWare sur betanews, je suis tombé sur un commentaire avec une adresse dedans :

http://www.virtualbox.org/

Screenshots:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots

VirtualBox under Vista inside VirtualBox on XP. Huh?!?

About :

InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. 

Some of the features of VirtualBox are: 
Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox. 
Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers. 
Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window). 

A number of extra features are available with the full VirtualBox release only (see the "Editions" page for details): 
Virtual USB Controllers. VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host. 
Remote Desktop Protocol. Unlike any other virtualization software, VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to "run" the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data. 
USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in. 
Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.

Moi j'ai fait sa sur mon PIII avec DSL (Damn Small Linux). mais j'avais juste 512mo de RAM alors sa fontionnait pas tres bien :/

Mais c'est interressant pasrce que Linux peut faire plein de chose que windows fait pas.

DSL n'est pas ce que je considere comme un vrai linux moderne, tout ce qu'il utilise date des annee 90 (a part le kernel, de 2003). Mais bon, ok commencera pas a s'ostiner la dessu dans ce topic.

Pour ce qui est des virtual machine, il y a aussi qmeu (normal et qemu accel), xen et KVM en open source qui son bon. Xen et KVM son exclusivement linux (kvm est dans le kernel de linux par default) mais qemu roule nimporte quoi sur nimporte quoi.

Merci du lien, je l'ajoute a ma liste de logiciel libre ( http://www.quebecgeeks.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=180#180 )