xen/virtualization

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:59 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.

I thought Xen needed a kernel customized (as a minimum recompiled) to
run in Xen. That is, Xen does not run out-of-the-box things. Ever see
Xen run XP or Vista? Unless I am mistaken, this is not possible.

VBox/Parallels/VMware, OTOH, run an OS out of the box.

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