Headless back-end (Re: Notes on VirtualBox)

[Chris O'Connell]

This would be a great tutorial to give at one of our monthly meetings, how
to configure a VirtualBox headless server.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Bill Bogstad <bogstad-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Rich Braun <richb-RBmg6HWzfGThzJAekONQAQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:\
> >...
> > VMware Inc's pricing strategy is so stratospheric that I'm going down the
> path
> > of building these headless servers as soon as I can get some benchmarks
> run.
> > I've been perpetually out of capacity on the several VMware servers I
> have at
> > work; if we can actually go open-source, such limits will completely
> vanish.
>
> I think VirtualBox is great, but you should think about whether you
> are looking at the GPLed release or the binary only release from their
> web site.   The binary only release has a number of nice additional
> features, but is only free for "personal and evaluation use":
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL
>
> OTOH, I can't find any obvious way to purchase a commercial license.
> Google only turns up people asking "how do I pay for this?" with no
> obvious responses...
>
> Bill Bogstad
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