[Gloucs] Type 1 hypervisor.

[Steve Fraser]

Copied and pasted directly from the VirtualBox website:

"Before version 4.0, there were two editions of VirtualBox: a full binary
containing all features and an "Open Source Edition" (OSE) with source code.
With version 4.0, there is only one version any more, which is open source,
and the closed-source components have been moved to a separate extension
pack."

"The binaries are released under the terms of the GPL version 2." (This is
referring to the open source binaries)

And this is what is says about the extension pack: "Support for USB 2.0
devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards. See this chapter from
the User Manual for an introduction to this Extension Pack. The Extension
Pack binaries are released under the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation
License (PUEL)."

Hope that clears things up for you.

I would also recommend VirtualBox, it will do exactly what you want. You
will probably want the features in the expansion pack too.

Cheers,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of GEOFF BAGLEY
Sent: 31 May 2011 18:21
To: Gloucestershire LUG
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Type 1 hypervisor.


> From: Matthew Phillips
> Virtualbox-ose stands for
> OpenSourceEdition!
> 
> Matthew Phillips

Hi Matthew.

Please can you tell me what license they use, and is it still Oracle ?

The attraction of xen and qemu is the GPL.

Geoff

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