[Tfug] What are the best options for virtualization?

[Jim March]

For now I'm stuck with VBox.  I know somebody who was having crashes with
VBox and switched to KVM which solved the crashes.  I've heard other similar
cases.  But until I score a new lappy sometime next week, I'm the damnfool
who did NOT check to see if the "Pentium Dual Core" Dell I picked up a
couple years back had hardware virt.  Ooops.

Jim

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Glen Pfeiffer <glen at thepfeiffers.net>wrote:

> On 20 Aug 2010, Jim March wrote:
> > If you don't have hardware virt, your SOLE choice for
> > virtualization is VirtualBox and...it's actually not the best.
> > It's the *easiest*, yeah, but it's not as stable as some other
> > solutions.
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> What kind of experiences have you had with the other
> virtualization options? I haven't looked at the offerings in a
> while, but I remember these were the best options a few years
> ago:
>
> - KVM
> - Linux VServer
> - QEMU
> - UML
> - VMWare
> - VirtualBox
> - Xen
>
> If I remember correctly, some of those only support running other
> linux's in the guest VM; like Linux VServer, and UML. I need to
> be able to run Windows in a VM for work. I do have hardware
> virtualizaion support.
>
> I've been running VirtualBox for about three years, but I am
> interested in trying out other solutions.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> --
> Glen
>
>
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