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VMware administrators say that Sun Microsystems’ xVM VirtualBox is a cheap and viable alternative to VMware Workstation for testing and configuring VMware virtual machines and appliances.

This week’s release of VirtualBox 2.2 cements that impression, with support for the Distributed Managment Task Force’s Open Virtualization Format, or OVF, as one of its supported formats.

“It’s a big deal,” said Rick Vanover, a systems administrator at Belron US, a vehicle glass repair and replacement company in Columbus, Ohio. Vanover has used VirtualBox to test client-side applications for more than a year. He said that with previous versions of VirtualBox, “the big sticking point was that you could open up a [VMware] VMDK [Virtual Machine Disk Format], but it was one way.” In other words, it was possible to open up virtual machines in multiple formats, but you couldn’t easily export them.

An article talking about VirtualBox and VMware, an interesting read, choosing the right virtualization platform for your specific need and your business is what matters, so do try the different ones and see which is right for you.

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