[clug] Virtual Machines?

[Rainer Klein]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'd like to know what you use for OS-portable virtual machines. I'm
> currently using VMWare which has host software for Windows, Linux, Mac
> OS X, and as indicated in my post about database replication I'd like
> to find a way to ship a collection of virtual machines demonstrating
> the replication models.
>
> Can you recommend something besides VMware? I'm not concerned about
> performance, licences, etc - my only concern is portability between
> host operating systems.
>
> It's worth noting at this point that VMware doesn't support Snow
> Leopard when the host OS is booted with a 64 bit kernel.
>
> Alex

Have you tried VirtualBox? 

Sofar I have only tested to move a VM image with WinXP from a 32 bit version 
of openSuSE to my 64 bit desktop without any hassle.

Rainer