xen/virtualization

Bruce Marshall bmarsh at bmarsh.com
Wed Sep 24 07:09:17 PDT 2008


On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > 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.

Read my statement again.   I was suggesting VirtualBox and I know you don't 
like it.




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