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Benefits of Virtual Box
Chris_Wess
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What are the benefits of Virtual Box?
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BuzzSaw
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This is a very loaded question.
In reference to what?
The biggest benefit is that its free, and pretty openly supported. Alot of distro's have pre built virtual box VM's that will import cleanly. It's also supported by a large company on the back end while still being open source which makes it a pretty decent product in relative to the idea its free.
Overall though, (IMHO) I prefer VMware Fusion, or VMware workstation (Assuming you are talking about local virtualization). But these products are not free. In my experience, the network portion of paid products always seems to be better suited to whatever I throw at it.
If you are asking more broadly what are the benefits of virtualization, then a simple google search would probably help with that. -
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Its free and you can pair it with Vagrant for a quick and easy setup/teardown for your lab environment. -
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Virtualbox is loyal and will never **** on you or nag you when after a hard day's worth of work. -
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Yeah but she's needy.Virtualbox is loyal and will never **** on you or nag you when after a hard day's worth of work. -
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One advantage is you can have a "pretend" computer to mess around with and destroy, and if it messes up, you can just reload it.
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Sir, what is vagrant? Will you please guide me about it and the steps of setup?
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cyberguypr
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Guidance for setup steps:
1. Lose job
2. Lose home
3. Hit the streets
4. Vagrantization complete -
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That's all Google, brah. Something OP should've done in the first place.
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Simrid
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I'll refer you to your own kind words on someone else's thread
http://www.techexams.net/forums/virtualization/116736-virtual-machines.html#post1047046I use VirtualBox as it is extremely easy to use even by a new Linux user. The main features and functionalities that can be easily accessed without any hard-core technical knowledge. Its biggest advantage is its cross platform support, open source. Install virtualbox on Linux, windows, and
Mac OS X.
In all seriousness, just asking the benefits of VB is a very open ended questions, benefits over a competitor etc?Network Engineer | London, UK | Currently working on: CCIE Routing & Switching
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I'll refer you to your own kind words on someone else's thread
Haha - and that was posted before the creation of this thread - how peculiar
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cyberguypr wrote: »Guidance for setup steps:
1. Lose job
2. Lose home
3. Hit the streets
4. Vagrantization complete
I think you forgot to mooch from family and friends until they can no longer stand your presence.
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1. VB's interface is well- designed. Second-best is virt-manager's (KVM).
2. Most likely to be the first hypervisor newcomers try out. -
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I think you forgot to mooch from family and friends until they can no longer stand your presence.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha lol so true[h=2]"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." Spock[/h] -
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Chris_Wess wrote: »Sir, what is vagrant? Will you please guide me about it and the steps of setup?
NetworkNewb posted the link to the website for Vagrant. There is ample documentation and its concise as well. You can get Vagrant running in a matter of minutes. -
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I'll refer you to your own kind words on someone else's thread
http://www.techexams.net/forums/virtualization/116736-virtual-machines.html#post1047046
In all seriousness, just asking the benefits of VB is a very open ended questions, benefits over a competitor etc?
Straight forward interface, easy to create snapshots of your VMs, and integrates with Vagrant (quick download and creation of pre-boxed images). Allows for a simple and effective labbing environment without a huge learning curve.
