On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 07:32:18 Sid S wrote:
I would suggest QEMU/KVM takes the place of VirtualBox. I've not
actually found anything it doesn't support, though VirtualBox is far
more polished.
Starting a VM will be as easy as running a shell script (or you can
use virt-manager).
Thanks
Yes, in favor of KVM.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=intel_haswell_virtualization
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=ubuntu_1404_kvmboxt
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 07:32:18 Sid S wrote:
I
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 12:47:55 Sid S wrote:
Yes, in favor of KVM.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=intel_haswell_virtualiza
tion http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=ubuntu_1404_kvmboxt
Vbox seems to be coming last by quite some margin in the intel tests! I
On 31/12/14 21:26, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 12:47:55 Sid S wrote:
Yes, in favor of KVM.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=intel_haswell_virtualiza
tion http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=ubuntu_1404_kvmboxt
Vbox seems to be coming last by quite
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 12:47:55 Sid S wrote:
Vbox seems to be coming last by quite some margin in the intel tests! I also
read this article and it looks that vbox is thankfully doing better on AMD;
but there are
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 09:42:11 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 31 Dec 2014 12:47:55 Sid S wrote:
Vbox seems to be coming last by quite some margin in the intel tests! I
also read this article and it
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
The thing lacking from KVM (and I believe also Containers) is that the memory
contents are not included in snapshots. Making the snapshots basically result
in an unclean-shutdown scenario.
Which is ok-ish as a backup,
On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:35:04 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:00 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
The thing lacking from KVM (and I believe also Containers) is that the
memory contents are not included in snapshots. Making the snapshots
basically
On 31/12/2014 18:18, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Some of the software we deal with can take up to 30 minutes to fully shutdown
and re-initialize. (Gotta love those huge enterprise-level BI applications)
Very OT: Mrs Alan wants to know:
BusinessObjects XI r3?
{apparently she's had bad experiences in
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Vbox seems to be coming last by quite some margin in the intel tests! I also
read this article and it looks that vbox is thankfully doing better on AMD;
but there are differences in the versions and kernels used between the
On 31 December 2014 18:33:25 CET, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/12/2014 18:18, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Some of the software we deal with can take up to 30 minutes to fully
shutdown
and re-initialize. (Gotta love those huge enterprise-level BI
applications)
Very OT: Mrs Alan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Sid S r03...@gmail.com wrote:
Containers and such definitely sound interesting; I had been avoiding
Linux VMs for the longest time due to the overhead. The alternatives
sound rather light so I might reconsider.
There are a couple of ways to go with them. The
For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes.
It has served the users' needs well, but I have set up a new PC and am
wondering if I am missing out on new tricks. The VMs are launched may be a
couple of times a week for an hour or two, to test website designs on
different
On 12/30/2014 02:52 PM, Mick wrote:
For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes.
It has served the users' needs well, but I have set up a new PC and am
wondering if I am missing out on new tricks. The VMs are launched may be a
couple of times a week for an hour or
On 30/12/2014 21:52, Mick wrote:
For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes.
It has served the users' needs well, but I have set up a new PC and am
wondering if I am missing out on new tricks. The VMs are launched may be a
couple of times a week for an hour or two,
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes.
I used to run vbox, but ran into some issues along the way and
switched to KVM, with virt-manager as a front-end. It is a bit more
complicated to get
On Tuesday 30 Dec 2014 22:01:00 Rich Freeman wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes.
I used to run vbox, but ran into some issues along the way and
switched to KVM, with virt-manager as
On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 07:52:44 PM Mick wrote:
For years now I have been running VirtualBox for testing purposes.
It has served the users' needs well, but I have set up a new PC and am
wondering if I am missing out on new tricks. The VMs are launched may be a
couple of times a week
I would suggest QEMU/KVM takes the place of VirtualBox. I've not
actually found anything it doesn't support, though VirtualBox is far
more polished.
Starting a VM will be as easy as running a shell script (or you can
use virt-manager).
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