On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I installed Virtualbox 2.2.4 and everything is 100%. >> > > You hope so but make it clear if you ever hit problems that you are not > on bare metal as bug reports have been looked at and been found to be > the fault of Virtualbox in the past with Theo commenting on their forum > that he couldn't believe any OS would allow what it was doing with > memory. I didn't speak up because others have said it's fixed, I wonder > now if it is just the VT-X that fixed Virtualbox.
Also, Windows XP (which the original poster is using) is very old, and very close to end-of-life. Hosting virtualization on it, for an inherited non-commercial project which Oracle inherited from Sun, is unlikely to be a long-term stable solution for anything, especially on XP. Not that Virtualbox is bad, I use it extensively myself for personal virtualization. But it means that he should make sure that his disk images are compatible with other vortia;ozatopm tpp;s, and that his backups of his OpenBSD system or of the disk image are working well, in case VirtualBox fails with new releases and he needs to host it elsewhere.
