I've been using VMware for a while and while I like it, I don't like having to pay for it when most of my developers are just using it to test a few things in IE, then they go back to working in Linux. Virtualbox looks good, and I've used it. I think it would be more than fine for this type of work (even for me, where all I do is use quickbooks online, then go back to Fedora). There are 2 problems: * Virtualbox isn't maintained in one of your respositories :-( * Virtualbox is maintained in one of Ubuntu's repositories :-) So what I have to do is keep trying to figure out whether the easy switch to Ubuntu is worth the effort of eventually moving all our web servers to an Ubuntu or Debian based system. Do you see where I'm going with this? I love RHEL and I love Fedora. But this is getting old. It just looks like other guys are doing what we really want, and maybe I just need to hop the fence.
VirtualBox is not available in the upstream Linux kernel, and is thus not part of Fedora. KVM is available as the primary virtualization technology since it is fully supported by upstream Linux kernel community. Xen is also available, as an alternative and being merged upstream. If VirtualBox is ever merged in upstream LKML it can be made available in Fedora, until that time it is not viable to maintain it.
KVM is another product comparable to Virtualbox or VMWare? I have read a lot about Xen being included in the Kernel, but I don't know how to use it, or how to install a Windows Environment using it.
per bug council on 08/27/2008 - removing from CS8.0 list
Adding to tracking Bug 445247