Qemu vs VMWare

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 12:12 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > unless your VM needs
> > access to your actual USB devices or needs to be controlled
> remotely,
> > as those features are not open source.
> 
> Well, now... It would be nice to be able to use usb, bluetooth, and
> such. One of my main use cases for a windows guest is to communicate
> with my cell-phone (via usb or bluetooth) using appropriate software
> (for Samsung phones...). But anyway, I'll give VB a try, just to see
> how it performs on my hardware.

Note that there is also a version of VB that does support USB devices.
It's not free (speech) although it is free (beer). You can install it
from http://www.virtualbox.org.

poc