Scott Robbins wrote:
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:38:06PM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:13 PM, John Summerfield
<debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
xen on F9 is basically useless (in my hands).
KVM is better, but prone to hanging guests.
I was wondering... having heard that I won't go there... for
production use anyway...
I have a virtual Debian system, supposed to be remastering Knoppix. At
various points, it becomes unresponsive, and I haven't found anything
short of a reboot that clears it.
It's happened on a another Debian system too, and also trying to install
CentOS5.
I haven't run into that. However, what I have found (and didn't care
enough about to seriously try fixing) is that sometimes, there are mouse
issues with MS guests, and it makes it seem slower than it should be.
I've not yet tried virtual Windows on Linux, but the mouse is somewhat
ill-behaved.
VirtualPC and VirtualServer work.
Good to know.
I'm not familiar with VirtualServer. However, VirtualBox runs quite
nicely on Fedora 9 for me.
Virtual PC and Virtual Server are Microsoft offerings.
I have the system principally for running virtual machines. (CentOS5 is
pretty unsatisfactory, for any purpose except maybe a headless server) on
the machine in question.
Ah, your prejudice is showing. As my main quad core machine runs CentOS,
(it works as my web server among other things) I made it into my desktop
as well, and it's really quite adequate for my relatively simple needs.
(Watching movies sometimes, browsing, email, that sort of thing.) On a
laptop, I have run into issues as its version of alsa seems a bit dated
and won't work with the sound card, but everything else is fine.
The problem with CentOS is its inability to drive the video hardware (HP
DC7700, Intel graphics). I use three different RHEL clones and am happy
with those, it's just the combination that gets me.
Mine will be my desktop work environment, so also needs the latest
For that, I'm running Scientific Linux 5 on an IBM ThinkCentre.
features in user interface, heterogeneous systems, and sadly, Windows
- virtual and/or emulated.
For what it's worth, I have a very unscientific comparison of VMware,
KVM and VirtualBox up at
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vmcomp.html
fwiw Guests of my Windows XP system appear on the LAN automatically.
For a windows guest, though, I think I would go with VirtualBox. It
gets better with each release (save perhaps for 1.6, but they fixed the
problems relatively quickly).
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Cheers
John
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