Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-31 Thread Wolf Canis
Hello all, just saw this thread and I felt there are some clarification needed. On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 07:43 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote: Hi all. Just to let you know I am FED-UP with VMWare - Server!! I have been wrestling with it on Ubuntu and other distros for TO long now!! The

[ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hi all. Just to let you know I am FED-UP with VMWare - Server!! I have been wrestling with it on Ubuntu and other distros for TO long now!! The latest is just the final straw!! I have redone my PC to have 10.4 on and loaded VMServer on (with all the patches!! I found on the internte to get it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Kris Douglas
VMWare is a bit of a pain. We use xenserver at work, it is the dog's danglies for what we need. I use VirtualBox on my work desktop tor testing stuff though, its nice. Sent from my Android powered HTC Hero. On 27 Aug 2010 07:44, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Jacob Mansfield
have you herd about the new M$ virtualisation system On 27 August 2010 09:23, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: VMWare is a bit of a pain. We use xenserver at work, it is the dog's danglies for what we need. I use VirtualBox on my work desktop tor testing stuff though, its nice.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread David King
I stopped using VMware a while back and have been using VirtualBox since then, with many distros installed as virtual machines. It's great. VirtualBox originally was not as good as VMware but it has improved so much as to be a real mainstream product. And it can work with vmware files too.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 27 Aug 2010 14:56:10 Rob Beard wrote: Um... why do you need to do anything with Firefox? VMWare Server 2 uses a web-based admin panel. VNC inside the browser requires a Firefox plugin, which works on i386 and amd64. Regards, Tyler -- Do the right thing even if it means dying like a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Jim Price
On 27/08/10 07:43, Cornelius Mostert wrote: Hi all. Just to let you know I am FED-UP with VMWare - Server!! I have been wrestling with it on Ubuntu and other distros for TO long now!! The latest is just the final straw!! I have redone my PC to have 10.4 on and loaded VMServer on (with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 27 Aug 2010 15:41:23 Jim Price wrote: I've been using Virtualbox since Hardy came out, as it is pretty slick and mostly pain free, but I took another look at qemu-kvm after the recent announcement from Oracle, and armed with a little foreknowledge, I feel happy I could switch to kvm