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Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox (www.phoronix.com)

Making use of Linux’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) opens up new possibilities while users can still enjoy the VirtualBox VMM itself. The KVM support is part of the mainline kernel so there is less worries with not having to use the VirtualBox kernel driver, KVM tends to support new features quite quickly, and tends to be...

flatpandisk,

Dumb question: why would anyone improve VBox?

I have heard of Oracle looking at IP addresses and if they notice a trend they try to collect a license off it. Same crap they do with Java. Do people use VBox and not concerned of Oracle looking over them?

I loved VBox back then, it worked great.

flatpandisk,

Thanks for the fantastic write up. It has been about 5ish years since I used VBox. Back then extensions were still needed for USB to work so this is good news.

VBox was always a great software, Oracle getting it really sucked

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