On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:55 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > McGuffey, David C. wrote: >> Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those >> occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools >> provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on >> F10? Which one is the easiest to install and configure? I had >> problems with VMWare on F7, and would prefer not to go that route >> again. I have no experience with the other two. > I would vote KVM as well. Support for native disks and USB devices is > trivial. However, the selling points for me of all of them are these: > > 1. Xen == Novel/Microsoft (yes, MS bought rights to Xen, and development > stopped/slowed to nothing) > > 2. VMWare == Windows host focus. Linux support is sub par and building > their kernel modules may always be an issue. > > 3. KVM is in the mainline kernel and gets a lot of (good and bad) > attention. > > 4. Virtualbox == some really old code from SUN. It requires its own > device driver and can conflict with KVM. What of Rahul's comment, further up the thread, saying "KVM (assuming you have the hardware support) with Virt-manager (if you need a GUI)"?? How do we tell if we have the hardware it takes? (And I for one do need a GUI for anything very complicated.) > 5. I am a command line/scripting person, and starting a series of VMs > based upon KVM is easily made to be automatic. > > I have no problem typing: > > $ sudo qemu-kvm -hda /dev/sdb1 -net nic -net user -m 1024 -soundhw all Aaaiiieeeee! <runs screaming into the middle distance> Such CLI-fu is beyond all hope for me. I prefer the CLI where feasible, to be sure, but I won't live long enough to be able to type a whole such line. So what's your take on this Virt-GUI? Is it part of KVM? Can we just do "yum install kvm" or "yum install kvm virt" and expect to get, if not success, a message we can use to make success possible? Something, I mean, more encouraging than "Go replace your motherboard, hard drive, and xkcd-bus, you idiot!"?? Or is this whole alternative to dual booting still for Alpha Plus Technoids only? Dumb question on a small point of purism, btw. IF (big if) I understand correctly, some if not all of these virtualizers actually contain (in some sense of "contain") a full install of XP or whatever, wrapped in linux like a mystery inside an enigma -- or a cyst inside an organ. Does KVM?? I'd a lot rather get rid of all the products of Redmond if I can .... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
