On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:54:50PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote: >>> I've read good things about VirtualBox so I'm hoping it will not >>> have the many deficiencies of VMWare Server. (If there are other >>> "free" server virtualization products worth trying, I'd like to hear >>> of them.) >> KVM is all the rage these days. >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM > Thanks. But this appears to be an option only for the well-heeled > whose fancy servers support the extended instructions. My P4 likely > doesn't. :-(
Perhaps not. It's easy to check, though. There are instructions for that on that page. > >> But I don't want all that graphical X-Windows and Qt bloat > > Then VirtualBox is not for you. At least not the free version. It > > doesn't have a headless mode. The non-free version... Well, we can't > > really help you with that :) > Actually they do have the ability to run headless as of v1.6. Looking at their webpage and documentation I see nothing that would suggest that this feature has been included in their OSE version now. It still seems to be only in their "full" edition. -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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