May 14, 2009 9:50 PM

I installed Sun’s Virtual Box on my Mac yesterday. I am using Windows 7 RC1 as the guest OS. I currently am using Parallels with Windows XP as my guest OS. Parallels wouldn’t let me install Windows 7, so that is already one up for Virtual Box. Also, Virtual Box is free and owned by Sun (soon to be Oracle).

I haven’t done any intensive testing yet, but so far Windows 7 is working well. I just installed the guest tools and everything that worked in Parallels works in Virtual Box. Doing the Virtual Folder though wasn’t as intuitive as Parallels as I had to use the manual a couple of times. Aside from that, so far so good.

In other news, Google had an outage today due to maintenance (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10241126-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20). It looks like Google was doing some work on how they routed traffic to the Internet using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). In a network as complex and as bandwidth intensive as Google’s, any issue with BGP routing will cause problems. I feel for their operations team.

This weekend is garage sale time. I’ll be cleaning out a bunch of gadgets I no longer use. This will make room for future toys ;-).

~rb