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Re: Where do you get Virtualbox



Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:

> In any case, you seem to have answered your own question: Oracle
> is the supplier of virtualbox. If you don't trust them, there
> are many fine alternatives to virtualbox, most of which are
> built on the  work of kvm, qemu or Xen.

To use USB devices inside a guest system, user is required to install
Oracle supplied binary deb packages. It will write to privileged
locations on the file system. I didn’t like that and discovered much
easier and light weight alternatives. I use ’qemu’.


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