xen/virtualization

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> 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.

Wait, what?  I've got nothing against vmware (I use it at home all the
time).  As for Sun, well, they put out complete crap, and attempt to
fsck over the OSS community whenever the mood strikes.   Also, from
what I've read VirtualBox is just Xen with Sun's marketing splooge all
over it.


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