Re: virtualization software for windows

[Valentin Villenave]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> We currently recommend VirtualBox Open Source Edition for lilypond
> contributors.  However, the download page (no longer?) has binaries
> available for the open-source edition:
>    http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Indeed. The closed-source edition is *very* reliable, however. I'm not
sure many people will notice the difference (sadly, in a way).

There's also http://www.vmware.com/products/player on the non-free
side (I like VBox better).

On the free-software side, there's also Qemu manager (but it's much
less user-friendly) :
http://www.davereyn.co.uk/download.htm

> Has it always been this way?  Do our windows contributors just use the
> non-open source edition of virtualbox?  Is there another webpage that
> supplies compiled versions of the open-source edition?  (is this
> something that changed after Oracle bought Sun?)

We *could* recommend http://vboxwin32.sourceforge.net (OSE VBox built
for Win32). Haven't tested it, though.

Do you want me to send an appropriate doc patch?

Cheers,
V.