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From: Pierre Palatin <pierre.palatin@m4tp.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtualBox PC virtualization released as Open Source
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:07:55 +0100
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On Monday 15 January 2007 20:02, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as I was just reading this on german newsticker heise.de:
> http://www.heise.de/open/news/meldung/83680
>
> Also on Slashdot:
> http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/15/1631234.shtml
>
> And the original news:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News
>
>
> Anyone knows more about this? How is it in direct comparison with Qemu?

For what I have seen in the sources, that's based on qemu, sligthly modified 
in order to be somehow "modular", thus allowing them to distribute additional 
proprietary extensions (list at  
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Closed-source%20features )



Pierre Palatin