On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Steve Herber <her...@thing.com> wrote: > I would suggest VirtualBox. It just installed easily for me. I am > running it on my system with stable gentoo-sources kernel. > > I just never had as much success with VMWare. > > Good luck, > -- > Steve Herber her...@thing.com work: 206-221-7262 > Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399 >
So that's a couple of votes for Virtual-Box. (That's from Sun correct?) emerge virtualbox-bin? It seems to want me to fetch something first. I'll have to check into that. There's also Xen, right? Is it too early for an Open Source alternative? What about disk space for each virtual machine? Does the vmware/virtualbox installation grab some part of the physical disk to start, or does it see all the disks in my system and then I grab some portion of those to do my partitioning for each installation? I.e. - can I give /dev/sda10 away to vmware and then everything stays on that partition? I'd like ot be very careful about not messing up my existing Gentoo installation when an XP process goes haywire and somehow goes out to destroy my /root partition, etc. Any extra requirements for an XP installation over and above what I'd give XP itself? I appreciate everyone's answers. I didn't expect this much info figuring I'd just have to try it out and see for myself. Thanks! - Mark
