Friday, 5 December 2008

Virtual Desktop/OS Emulator Tools for Ubuntu

VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).



VBoxGTK

A simple GTK frontend for VirtualBox. It's still in beta (the site notes that "most of VirtualBox features are not supported,and those that are will probably fail"), but it's a good beginning and progressing rapidly.

Qemu Launcher

Qemu Launcher is a Gtk front-end for the Qemu x86 PC emulator. Qemu is a command line application so I wrote this so that Qemu is more accessible from the desktop.
QEMU

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances.

QtEmu

QtEmu is a graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4. It has the ability to run virtual operating systems on native systems. This way you can easily test a new operating system or try a Live CD on your system without any troubles and dangers. QtEmu has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (2k, XP).

3 comments:

Paul Westbrook said...

I use VMWare Workstation to run Windows XP. This is the only virtual machine that would allow me to sync with my iPhone

ODB said...

Are there any programs or configurations that let you run an OS on a virtual machine without it knowing that it is a virtual OS?

Frederico said...

Paul, Houston have a problem? LOL. I use VirtualBox and I can sync my iPhone from there. Try it!!! You need run under root privileges and setup USB filter.
:)