However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would no longer qualify as personal use. Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use. It doesn't matter whether you just use it for fun or run your multi-million euro business with it. Personal use is when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother). So the faq should be similar to the old comment. Is personal use still the same? I tried to purchase commercial one but it asks minimum of 100 units. Nov 2011, 13:04 Primary OS: Linux other VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Windows 2000 I do some promotion for VB indeed, but they just don't believe that it would really work and satisfy their needs.sigh) Big Thank You!Īnd, companies with 500+ employees use VMWare anyway (and surely pay lots of money for it - don't know why, but, in my experience, they just don't know VB, or think it's too 'small' and/or just for 'hobbyists' or something like that. Wouldn't that be more correct?Īdmittedly, it might be more correct, but I'm pretty glad they don't charge me when I'm using one single installation of VB in my SOHO 'multi-million euro business' (1-person company in my private home). Which makes me think that VirtualBox's paying users, apart from those who want to pay because of some ideal belief of theirs, are actually quite few, while I thought that the use of the program in professional environments (where money earning is directly involved) should be somehow paid for.

Marco wrote:Obviously if the company has 500 employees, the one by one 'personal' install and use would be hard, but when the employees are 2 or 5 or 10.

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