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phoronix
02-03-2009, 03:50 PM
Phoronix: VMware Provides Open-Source Virtualization Viewer

While VMware's virtualization platform has been popular with many Linux users, its entire virtualization infrastructure has been closed-source. This though may change to some extent...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzAzNw
hax0r
02-03-2009, 04:34 PM
Cool, but it fails to compile.
Vadi
02-03-2009, 04:44 PM
Someone make a Qt port!
Louise
02-03-2009, 04:55 PM
It will be interesting to see if the distributions will include it. It is a competitor to Xen, Virtual Box, Parallels, etc.
deanjo
02-03-2009, 05:27 PM
It will be interesting to see if the distributions will include it. It is a competitor to Xen, Virtual Box, Parallels, etc.

Many distro's already include vmtools as part of thir distro, this is no different. I'm sure there will be packages in most major distro's.