[Tfug] What are the best options for virtualization?

[Ammon Lauritzen]

I've only had VBox crash on my i3 laptop (but it does it consistently
enough on there that i've since given up). Never had a problem on
machines lacking virt support (amd or intel), never had a problem on
core2duo/quad. With virt support, i have been able to run 64-bit guest
linux vm's on 64-bit hardware running 32-bit win xp with nary a lick
of trouble.

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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