On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:24:08 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> I also tried Virtual Box. This offers a familiar GUI interface. (And I
> particularly like the way each VM has its own window, so you can SEE
> multiple VMs at the same time. On the other hand, it lacks activity
> lights...) However, there are two main problems with it. The first is
> that you still have to manually manage disks and VMs separately. But the
> big, big problem is IT'S TOTALLY UNRELIABLE! It just will NOT do what
> you tell it to. The number of times it's crashed on me, or a particular
> VM has become unusable is utterly unacceptable.

FWIW, I use VirtualBox on Linux pretty much daily, never have stability 
problems at all.

I'm also not sure what you  mean by "manag[ing] disks and VMs separately" 
- the GUI that I use (which is the default GUI AFAIK) doesn't do that.

Jim

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