On 2/12/2015 4:57 PM, Joe Polcari wrote:
Says it's fixed?
Three years to fix a bug that crashes the VM and takes out the host with it. No, I had to stop using VirtualBox because of this bug and a three year turnaround on a fix isn't going to get me to change my mind about not using it.
VMware offers a free version of VMware Player for personal use. It's a lot like what VMware Workstation was before Workstation became an enterprise-grade product. I'm partial to VMware's products for desktop use because they maintain feature parity across concurrent releases, something that Parallels doesn't (at least didn't last time I checked which was a few years ago) which complicates copying VMs between different host operating systems.
Xen is really nice for what it is but it isn't something that I would use for a personal box. While it starts with GRUB and a Linux kernel, the dom0 which controls the domU's is itself a virtualized environment running above the Xen hypervisor. As such it does not have direct access to the hardware so no accelerated graphics and sometimes no audio. Xen is most excellent for virtualizing servers. KVM is probably better for a personal box since you have a Linux kernel running on the bare metal instead of a Xen hypervisor.
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