niflheim

I was tired of writing about Virtual Box 4 months ago, but it keeps coming up.

So, I moved the server on which I typically use VMWare to run my Linux and Solaris applications (and most of my MySQL databases).  Unfortunately, this moved me from a very fast/stable wired connection to a fast but less stable wireless connection via a USB NIC.

I failed to find any means of making the USB NIC visible to my VMWare instances.  It just won’t do it, no matter what I change/try/threaten.

So, on a whim, I booted Virtual Box.  Without changing a single thing, I have complete connectivity.

Go VirtualBox, go.

And thus I am left with basically no reason at all to continue using VMWare.  Which is good, because lately it has begun allocating gigabytes of RAM when I start a VM (for neither an apparent nor good reason), which is “somewhat annoying”.

Now that I’m fully converted, maybe I can finally stop writing about it!