Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-21 Thread James Wilkinson
Beartooth wrote that he: > … did "yum install kvm virt-manager," and got both plus ten > dependencies. > > Is there a better way to get started than a man page? I’d start playing with Virtual Tools -> Virtual Machine Manager or virt-manager (from a root shell): it gives a basic graphical i

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Beartooth wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:18:22 +0100, Alex de Jong wrote: There's no need to get rid of wine, since you're running XP completely seperate of your Linux install. Which virtualisation program are you running? I guess you should be able to add another CD/DVD-drive by directory in yo

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Beartooth 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 F

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-20 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:18:22 +0100, Alex de Jong wrote: > There's no need to get rid of wine, since you're running XP completely > seperate of your Linux install. > Which virtualisation program are you running? I guess you should be able > to add another CD/DVD-drive by directory in your virtualis

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-20 Thread Alex de Jong
There's no need to get rid of wine, since you're running XP completely seperate of your Linux install. Which virtualisationprogram are you running? I guess you should be able to add another CD/DVD-drive by directory in your virtualisation program. Beartooth wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:41:28

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-20 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:41:28 +, James Wilkinson wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> 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)"?? [...] > For AMD > grep svm /proc/cpuinfo

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-18 Thread James Wilkinson
Beartooth wrote: > 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.) Y

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-17 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:50:36 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: [...] > KVM can virtualize everything, and does not by itself contain any M$ > software. But if you want to use KVM to run Window$ programs, you'll > need an installation of Window$ inside it. Try WINE if you want to run > Window$ prog

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread solarflow99
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Beartooth 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 bes

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Beartooth wrote: > Dumb question on a small point of purism, btw. IF (big if) I > understand correctly, some if not all of these virtualizers actually > contain (in some sense of "contain") a full install of XP or whatever, > wrapped in linux like a mystery inside an enigma -- or a cyst inside an

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-15 Thread Beartooth
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? Wh

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Phil Meyer
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 wi

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Tosh
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 wi

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: While I have used KVM for more than a year for my own uses, I find that VirtualBox offers an easier and seemingly more complete feature set right now than KVM. For instance, it's a simple matter to get sound working in VirtualBox where as I haven't figured out how t

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Rahul Sundaram 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 config

Re: F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
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? KVM (assuming

F10 -- Xen, VirtualBox, or VMWare?

2009-02-05 Thread McGuffey, David C.
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 p