Am Samstag, 30. August 2008 00:38:27 schrieb Andrew Lentvorski:
> Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 07:24:20 schrieb Andrew Lentvorski:
> >> Dexter Filmore wrote:
> >>> The optimization thought crossed me, too, then again I can't really
> >>> imagine they'd neglect Linux in such ways.
> >>
> >> BWHAHAHAHAHA!  Oh, wait ... you weren't joking ...
> >>
> >> Well, they haven't fixed VMWare tools for the latest RHEL and Fedora for
> >> ... what ... almost 6 months now.  They "upgraded" VMWare Server, and
> >> now you need a Windows box to administer it.
> >
> > Not really too encouraging considering WS6 costs about 120 bucks...
> >
> >> I could go on, but I won't.  I just switched to other solutions.
> >
> > Like? I tried VBox and consider it crapware. What else is there?
>
> For me, Solaris Zones combined with ZFS worked like a champ.  I can
> isolate individual machines in a zone via ZFS without duplicating all
> the files repeatedly (Ah, the wonders of copy-on-write ...)

Never heard of that. But that's server virtualization, not desktop I guess? I 
need something that runs on top of my desktop linux.

> VirtualBox has improved some.  I can now run FreeBSD without it spinning
> my CPU continuously.  I'm still not that happy with them since they hold
> the USB system source code hostage--you can download the binary version
> with it, but not compile a version from source.

VBox gave me all kinds of hell. Usually it won't resume a suspended machine 
and barfs up an incomprehensible error. Happened way too often to be 
considered ok for production systems.

> Qemu is the standard choice.  On OS X, it's got a pretty nice GUI.  I
> don't know about Windows.

Qemu = sloooooooow. Not good.

> There is also Xen.  My rants about that are recorded.  I don't like it;
> others think it's great.

See above, server/desktop. 

> And, finally, there is KVM?  I don't know much about it.

Me neither, don't even know it.

Dex

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