Re: Virtualization

I have been using VirtualBox for a few days now. I really like it.
Very easy to install and get going. And I am pretty much a linux newb.




On Feb 12, 2008 12:02 PM, Ron Morse <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:21 -0700, Aaron wrote:
> > I have played a bit with VMWare, mostly the free server.
> > It seems to do what I need, but I do prefer OSS over Free whenever possible.
> >
> > My main complaint is that it is unresponsive to the screen.
> > Mouse movements, window placement, are all clumsy.
> > I guess the commercial workstation product is better in this respect,
> > but still not like running directly on the hardware.
> >
> > I have also not yet gone all the way to configure a proper virtual
> > network, and share disks as I would want on a production configuration.
> > I am wanting the guest OS to share files with the host.
> >
> > Xen seems pretty popular, but it seems to demand a LINUX host.
> > It also wants a custom kernel for max performance.
> > I'm happy to make custom kernels/patches for LINUX host and guest,
> > but I fear that it, too, will be too clumsy to use interactively with
> > a windows guest.
> >
> > VirtualBox seems to run under both Windows and LINUX hosts (i think).
> > At least it will work with a Windows host.   I'm seeing less press on
> > this one.
> >
> > Does anybody on this list have experience with more than one of these,
> > and care to compare?
> >
> > My main use is to make applications designed to run on several boxes,
> > windows front-end, LINUX back-end, run on a single box.
> > On a more personal side, I'd be interested in seeing if I can throw
> > out my mandatory windows development/testing box for a VM.
> > I do have interest in both Windows and LINUX host OS's.
> > Windows host for deliveries.
> > LINUX host for personal and in-house use.
> >
> >               aaron
>
> My experience with both VMware and Virtual Box is that VMWare
> workstation is by far the more mature and usable product, although it
> has been a while since I last looked at Virtual Box.
>
> As far as clunky pointing devices and screen response in the Windows
> VMware guest, installing the "vmware tools" package into the guest VM
> resolves those issues for me.
>
> Ron Morse
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