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 -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
