[plug] re: virualisation

[Jon L. Miller]

Just got an e-mail from a Novell instructor and he tells me that Xen
installs with the desktop version and it works with XP just fine. I'll
report back after we give it a go.

Jon

On Mon, August 27, 2007 20:47, Arie Hol wrote:
>
>
> On 27 Aug 2007 at 15:01, Brad Campbell wrote:
>
>> Gavin Chester wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 16:16 +0800, Kev wrote:
>> >> Richard Meyer wrote:
>> >>> Dunno whether you can run Xen under XP, so that could be a point to
>> >>> watch.
>> >> Me neither, but you definitely can with Parallels and I'm pretty sure
>> >> VirtualBox has a  Windoze host.
>> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >
>> > It wasn't until this past post that I saw mention of virtualbox. There
>> > were recent reviews ranking it better in some ways than vmware. Since
>>
>> I used to run all my VM's under Qemu with kqemu, but when I discovered
>> Virtualbox I moved over to that. Its quite a bit faster. Unlike VMware,
> it's
>> kinda mostly open source (and the kernel module has no ugly object files
>> linked in). I use the non-opensource edition as I need USB passthrough
>> (which is flawless), but for most uses the OSE would be fine. I've been
>> running it now for a good number of months and I'm well sold on it.
> Smaller
>> footprint on disk than VMware too.
>>
>> They even do nice, well behaved .deb's which makes upgrades and
> maintenance
>> a breeze.
>>
>> Brad
>
> For more info goto :
>
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/
>
> Regards Arie
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