On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 18:37, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly. >> Based solely on the number of kernel bug reports we get that seem to be >> related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable. > > > 1) It works in windows > 2) It works in mac os-x > 3) Oracle has put a lot of money/effort in pushing it via searches > > and probably a little of: > > 4) It is not from Red Hat. 5) Free as in beer Windows guest driver binaries? Acquiring these is non-obvious for KVM/libvirt virtio blk/net Windows guest drivers unless you're a RHEL customer. Not arguing with the approach; merely relaying what I see from new adopters. -- Dan Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services 503-257-1562 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
