[u-u] VirtualBox and Vagrant

[Toby Thain]

On 05/12/14 2:39 PM, Hugh Gamble wrote:
> VirtualBox is fine for dev/test and desktops.

+1

It's very good in this role - I've been using it for the past 17 months 
this way.

--Toby


> I don't know Vagrant, but VirtualBox should be ideal for the kinds of things
> Vagrant does.
>
> VirtualBox is not suited to running production servers.
> VirtualBox has frequent updates, but not always well tested.
> Every VirtualBox update wants to down and up the network interface on your
> *host*
> whether it needs to or not.
>
> VirtualBox networking support should be fine,
> unless you need something fancy like promiscuous mode
> or you lose something in the differences between your virtual NIC
> and the physical NIC on your host.
>
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>> Has anyone on list any experience with these, particularly wrt to
> networking?
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