On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Beartooth <bearto...@swva.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:00:55 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: > > > McGuffey, David C. wrote: > >> Rather than configuring a dual-boot machine for running those > >> occasional Windows apps, which one of these virtualization tools > >> provides the best (read most accurate) virtualization environment on > >> F10? Which one is the easiest to install and configure? I had > >> problems with VMWare on F7, and would prefer not to go that route > >> again. I have no experience with the other two. > > > I would vote KVM as well. Support for native disks and USB devices is > > trivial. However, the selling points for me of all of them are these: > > > > 1. Xen == Novel/Microsoft (yes, MS bought rights to Xen, and development > > stopped/slowed to nothing) > > > > 2. VMWare == Windows host focus. Linux support is sub par and building > > their kernel modules may always be an issue. > > > > 3. KVM is in the mainline kernel and gets a lot of (good and bad) > > attention. > > > > 4. Virtualbox == some really old code from SUN. It requires its own > > device driver and can conflict with KVM. > > What of Rahul's comment, further up the thread, saying "KVM > (assuming you have the hardware support) with Virt-manager (if you > need a GUI)"?? > > How do we tell if we have the hardware it takes? (And I for one > do need a GUI for anything very complicated.) > > > 5. I am a command line/scripting person, and starting a series of VMs > > based upon KVM is easily made to be automatic. > > > > I have no problem typing: > > > > $ sudo qemu-kvm -hda /dev/sdb1 -net nic -net user -m 1024 -soundhw all > > Aaaiiieeeee! <runs screaming into the middle distance> > > not to be feared about the qemu-kvm command if you have to use it, theres a > few parameters and examples, whats really useful is the fact it can be > scriped if necessary. Plus redhat is going with KVM now, so it'll be the > one to use for some time. I sure dont trust anything MS buys into even if > its opensource (for now (XEN)).
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