xen/virtualization

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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.

Not bloody likely.  VMWare is currently the gold standard of
enterprise virtualization, and nothing that I see on the VB website
suggests that they're remotely close to offering the same ease of use
& featureset as vmware.

SUN, in a way that only they can muster, will fsck it up (well more
than they already have), and I'm sure it will marginalized to a bunch
of SUN fanboys just like all of SUN's other product releases from the
past decade.  SUN needs to get over themselves and realize that they
haven't been the new hotness for a very long time.  Merely slapping
the SUN logo on a product will not attract attention nor increase
revenue.


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