Virtualbox redux

So I spoke a little fast. Virtualbox OSE (Open Source Edition) has a couple of glaring flaws. It is missing USB and shared folder support. Boo! Their personal binary version has these features though and is free to individuals. Yay! You choice to GPL or not to GPL.

Luckily for me, Gentoo Linux makes it effortless to remove and reinstall the old versus new.

So to sum it up in a way consumer conscious America understands. Price of Virtualbox to replace Vmware: $0, price of repurposing my Windows key on my virtual machine: $0, price of Firefox and Windiz extension: $0. Normally this would be $189+$149=too much.

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