xen/virtualization

[Michael Hipp]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Vu Pham wrote:
>> I would like to try virtualization on Linux. Because I am new with this
>> I would like to start with less trouble first, understanding that it may
>> lack some features or may be slow. Which distro should I try ? RHEL5 or
>> Fedora 9 ? Or some others ?
> 
> Use any distro you like (AFAIK)  but I would suggest using VirtualBox which is 
> now distro'd by Sun.
> 
> I know Lonnie doesn't like it but I used VMWare for many years (the expensive 
> version) and then tried VB.   I don't see anything missing and some things 
> like USB now work that didn't before.

Does VB still have multiple pages of instructions for creating a bridged 
network adapter?

I tried to use it a while back but got scared off by that. Other than that it 
looks like VMWare's worst nightmare.

Thanks,
Michael