VirtualBox in PHP-AJAX

Re:VirtualBox in PHP-AJAX by timmorgan on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:01PM (#1834705)

Are people using VirtualBox on servers these days, a la VMWare ESX?

I thought it was a desktop-only tool -- this seems to make it a viable replacement for ESX and puts it ahead of KVM in the tools department, no?

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Re:VirtualBox in PHP-AJAX by jbester on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @12:32PM (#1834862)

It's more a replacement for VMWare Server than VMWare ESX. I think KVM/Xen are closer to ESX. VirtualBox ships with a webservice that you can write custom front-ends against (or script against).

Most of the VM tools seems to miss an ability to branch a VM (i.e. take a snapshot and break it off as a seperate instance). This would be hugely useful for installer testing.

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Re:VirtualBox in PHP-AJAX by omh on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @04:03PM (#1835834)

I'm pretty sure that Virtualbox machines can be cloned, and they'll clone the latest snapshot. It's not easily exposed in the GUI though.

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