On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:48:14PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used > it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for > students back then. > > This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines > installed) and wanted to reinstall the new version of VMWare Desktop. I > noticed that it is not free anymore but comes with a 30 day trial > feature. > > So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual > machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be > appreciated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines is a start. I've used Qemu to run windows xp with no problems other than it's slow. I use xen to run my server with three domU's (all etch on an etch dom0), works great, though is probably overkill. It can be a little fragile on a reboot, and definitely took a lot of learning to get it all running properly. A
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